What to Think vs. How to Think It is not the teacher's job to order students what to think, this is what I learnt from some TEDx talks but actually my question is: should teachers teach students what to think? And if yes, how could they make that happen? Well, I am of the opinion that teachers, mentors, advisers, or even parents should always only enlighten students, children and adolescents on how to think; In other words, how to sketch out their thinking, how to think up and how to frame their thinking processes to be put into action afterwards. They could be trained to all of that in various ways, say, by studying successful people in different fields of study or the fields these students are interested in, or by learning how to choose their role model in life and how they could learn this person's recipe for success to work it for them. One of the major problems opposing turning such ideas into reality is that in many countries all over the globe, students learn to memorize and not to understand and apply in real life. For example, both Philosophy and History are two great subjects to learn and are very essential for anyone to take lessons from them but unfortunately in many countries, students study them only through memorizing the quotes of the great-for-all-time philosophers such as; Aristotle and Plato and memorizing some historical incidents linked to their dates! Couldn't I, for example and with all respect, have much better ideas than those philosophers? Couldn't these revolutions in technologies and knowledge make us be more eligible and have better or at least equal contributions to the world? So why should I study their lives in great detail by heart while my life could be more important to be memorized by heart by other students? To sum up, it's of great importance to study Philosophy, History and Poetry but it's quite important to study them in the "right way".