bias in critical thinking - BLAME THE EDUCational establishment

 Competing definitions can be understood as differing conceptions of the same basic concept: 

i.e Trump v Biden

So why is the educational establishment almost universally left wing, i.e vote Biden

Critical thinking's adoption as an educational goal has been recommended on the basis of respect for students’ autonomy and preparing students for success in life and for democratic citizenship. 

So why are media graduates, in the main, quasi religious left wing zealots?  

Perhaps it is because they have received an education of anchored instruction, anchored to left wing views.

Epistemological subject-specificity clearly holds to a certain extent; for example, the principles in accordance with which one solves a differential equation are quite different from the principles in accordance with which one determines whether a painting is a genuine Picasso.

Adoption of any educational ideal requires a prior ideological commitment.

 and the indoctrination and cultivation of critical thinking cannot escape being a form of indoctrination. J'accuse the Professors

 Further, defining a problem does not always follow after or lead immediately to an idea of a suggested solution. Nor should it do so, avoiding any strong preference for this or that conclusion before getting further information is required

Yet people with a hypothesis in mind, even one to which they have a very weak commitment, have a so-called “confirmation bias” 

 they are likely to pay attention to evidence that confirms the hypothesis and to ignore evidence that counts against it or for some competing hypothesis. 

critical thinking process needs transformation of an inchoate sense of perplexity into a clear question.