Has critical thinking vanished?

'A conversation with the president of St. John's College' (+podcast) Boyd Matheson interviews Mark Roosevelt at Deseret News.

"Boyd Matheson: Let's drill down into that. For those who aren't familiar with St. John's College, how is it different from the typical college or university today..."

"Mark Roosevelt: ... We're very small. Our faculty are called tutors and not professors because they do not profess. Our classes are all seminars built around the Socratic method. Our curriculum is entirely required. So every student is doing the same thing in different seminars, but the same textural works. We are known as the great books school, meaning that we really do study firsthand, we don't read secondary sources, we read the actual books. Students will read 222 books during the course of their four years here. The only thing that great books does not really describe well is they also do significant work in math and science. So they will learn calculus, they will do differential equations."