Once again,it looks as if critical thinking may well be just another subject taught at school as an academic subject,much like English. What needs to happen is that it has to be applied to real-life situations so that students can understand why it is so important,and so that they can use it properly.
Some universities such as kmutt integrated thinking-skills tasks into their-based curriculum a few years after the 1999 Education Act was introduced. I am sure there individual teachers who have designed critical-thinking and problem-solving tasks as part of their daily lesson plans,but these classes are not at the primary-school level where they are supposed to begin