‘You have to engage in critical thinking’- Claude O. Skelton-Cline
During his final show for 2025 on December 23, 2025, on ZBVI 780 AM, titled, ‘Are you thinking or just repeating?’, Skelton-Cline said that with all of the information out there, some are simply just repeating what they hear without fact-checking.
“Not many of us are thinking, we’re simply repeating what others are saying and especially when it’s poor or bad or mis or disinformation. It’s important that we re-engage in our critical thought; it’s important that we begin again…to think for ourselves and to think critically.”
Use your devices to do your own research
Skelton-Cline referenced what is happening around the world and even closer to home with the United States and Venezuela.
“With all of the information that’s available to us, we cannot simply be repeating what the powers are telling us. More often than not, what the powers at be are telling us are lies, it’s not true, it’s misdirection, it’s misinformation, it’s half information.”
He encouraged people to use their devices for more than scrolling on social media like TikTok.
“You got to use it for more than that, you got to probe, you got to read, you got to study, you got to listen. You have to engage in critical thinking and stop repeating everything you hear some say and treating it as if it is truth.”
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Our school system focuses on what we get right on a test. Instead it should be focused on what we got wrong. It is not capitalizing on our failures. After school , we forget much about what was taught in school. The problem is compounded when little is paid to what we got wrong. We praise students who ace tests and little attention to those who didn’t pass the test..So many graduate as functional illiterates. We graduate without having a full grasp of the material we were expected to have learnt. We need to rethink the education system , increasing the focus on basic finance, critical thinking, identifying the academics, tech, etc, early.,,etc..