In Bell Hooks’s article “Critical Thinking”, she walks us through how children’s critical thinking, or, to say, creativity, was suppressed as they grew. Personally, I think critical thinking is one of the ways of creative practice. To support this, then, what is creative practice, and what is critical thinking? To me, creativity is a given talent that all of us have, a personal and special taste in our daily lives. We can be creative in many ways; art is the most obvious and traditional means. We could be creative about what we eat; we could be creative about how to get to school, and we could also be creative about what to wear today. Creativity is a process that seeks our own opinions and thoughts. And critical thinking is just another matter of creativity that applies to academic or serious events. “By the time most students enter college classrooms, they have come to dread thinking”, Hooks says in her article. For those of the students, they’ve lost their passion for the school or for the things they have to learn. Since the school has all these principles and rules that they have to follow, they are being shaped into a mold that adults/people believe to be good. If you were a good student, would you come up randomly with a bold question in the middle of a lecture in front of hundreds of people to share your own opinion on a specific topic? I assume not since it’s rude and maybe unnecessary to give this a try. However, this is just an extreme example, you can still be critical thinking and creative and go ask your teacher privately or brainstorm on your own. But that’s what I understand as why it explains what Hooks said about students now being passive recipients of all information and no longer thinking critically.