Exercise Answers and Teaching Tips Chapter 1: Introduction to Critical Thinking Students enjoy the exercises in Chapter 1. Most of these exercises being Socratic are designed to ease students into the course and encourage self-reflection in dialogue with others. Instructors probably won‘t want to do all the exercises in this chapter: We generally do about half of them. Exercise 1.1.I works well as an icebreaker. Students always enjoy Exercises 1.2 and 1.3, and Exercises 1.6.I and 1.6.III work well for instructors who emphasize writing. Exercise 1.1 I. As noted above, this exercise works well as an icebreaker. We use it mainly to highlight the difference between lower-order thinking and higher-order thinking. II. Having grown up on different television talk shows, today‘s students are surprisingly frank about their practical and intellectual inconsistencies. If discussion does falter, try discussing the hypocrisies of public figures. III and IV Both of these exercises shed light on the concept of intellectual standards. These exercises can be used to start a class discussion by splitting the class in groups and having a debate.