Education system needs to stress on critical thinking

THE arguments put forward by some of the groups and personalities involved in the controversy arising from the name of the locally-produced whisky, Timah, can be analysed with the topoi system to determine their validity.

The use of topoi (Greek for “places”) dates back to ancient Greece, and involves looking at a topic from different angles in order to understand it more fully or to discover new ideas with which to construct an argument.