演讲者
乔丹·伯恩特·彼得森（英语：Jordan Peterson，1962年6月12日—）是加拿大多伦多大学的心理学教授，临床心理学家和文化批评家[1]。他的主要研究领域是异常心理、社会心理的和人格心理学，特别是宗教信仰和思想体系方面的心理学以及个人性格的评估和改进。
以下为视频中英文:(上面字幕机器翻译的不太好，请参考下面中文翻译)
Best way to teach people critical thinking
is to teach them to write.
And I made this little thing that I put online.
I have this guide to writing and it steps people through the process of writing.
Because what's happened now, it's very hard to teach people to write because it's unbelievably time intensive.
And writing, marking a good essay, that's really easy. Check a, you did everything right.
Marking a bad essay. Oh, my God, the words are wrong, the phrases are wrong, the sentences are wrong, they're not ordered right in the paragraphs.
The paragraphs aren't coherent and the whole thing makes no sense.
So trying to tell the person what they did wrong, oh, you did everything wrong.
Everything about this essay is wrong.
Well, that's not helpful either. You have to find the few little things they did half right and you have to teach them what they did wrong. It's really expensive.
And so what I did with this rubric was try to address that from the production side instead of the grading side.
But the best thing you can do is teach people to write because there's no difference between that and thinking.
And one of the things that just blows me away about universities is that no one ever tells students why they should write something.
You have to do this assignment well.
Why are you writing? Well, you need the grade. No, you need to learn to think.
Because thinking makes you act effectively in the world. Thinking makes you win the battles you undertake.
And those could be battles for good things.
If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way.
So that's why you learn to write.
And I can't believe that people aren't just told that it's the most powerful weapon you can possibly provide someone with.
And I know lots of people who've been staggeringly successful and watched them throughout my life.
Those people, you don't want to have an argument with them.
They'll just slash you into pieces.And not in a malevolent way.
If you're going to make your point and they're going to make their point, you better have your points organized, because otherwise you are going to look like and be an absolute idiot.
You are not going to get anywhere.
And if you can formulate your arguments coherently and make a presentation, if you can speak to people, if you can lay out a proposal.
God, people give you money, they give you opportunities.
You have influence. That's what you're at university for.
And so that's what you do is you're in English, right?
You're languages anyways.
Teach people to be articulate because that's the most dangerous thing you can possibly be.
That's motivating.
If people know that, why are you learning to write?
Because here's your sword, here's your M16, right?
Here's your bulletproof vest.
You learn how to use them.
But it's an endless mystery to me why that isn't made self evident.
So that's the sort of thing that can drive you mad trying to sort out.
It's like people are. There's a conspiracy to bring people into the education system to make them weaker.
So I guess that keeps the competition down.
Maybe that's one way of thinking about it.
If your students are stupid, they're not going to challenge.
教会人们批判性思维的最好方式就是教他们写作。
我做了一个小工具，放在网上。
我有一份写作指南，可以一步步引导人们完成写作的过程。
因为现在的情况是，教别人写作变得非常困难，因为这需要投入巨大的时间。
写作方面，批改一篇好文章其实很容易。
看看就行了，你所有地方都做对了。
而批改一篇差文章就很麻烦了。天哪，词语用错了，短语错了，句子错了，段落顺序也乱七八糟。
段落不连贯，整篇文章都没有逻辑。
然后你试图告诉这个人哪里出了问题，但其实是每个地方都出了问题。
整篇文章都是错的，但这样说对他们也没有帮助。
你得找到他们做得还算对的那几点，然后教会他们哪里错了。
这真的非常耗费精力。
所以我设计这个评分标准，是试图从写作过程，而不是批改结果入手，解决问题。
但最重要的还是教人写作，因为写作和思考本质上没有区别。
让我对大学教育感到震惊的一点是，从来没有人告诉学生为什么要写作。
“你必须完成这项作业，为什么要写作？”
“因为你需要分数？”不，因为你需要学会思考。
因为思考能让你在现实世界中更高效地行动。
思考能让你赢得你参与的每一场战斗。
而这些战斗可能是为了实现美好的目标。
如果你能思考、表达并写作，那你将拥有极大的杀伤力。
没有什么能阻挡你。
这就是为什么你要学习写作。
我简直不敢相信，这竟然没有被直接告诉人们——写作是你能拥有的最强大的武器。
我认识许多取得惊人成功的人，我观察他们的一生。
那些人，你绝对不想跟他们争论。
他们会轻易将你的论点驳得体无完肤。
而且不是恶意的。
如果你想表达自己的观点，而他们也在表达他们的观点，那你最好把你的论点整理清楚。
否则，你看起来会像个彻头彻尾的傻瓜。
你会寸步难行。
如果你能有条理地组织你的论点，能做好陈述，能和别人交流，能清晰地提出计划。
天哪，人们会给你钱，会给你机会。
你会拥有影响力。
这才是你上大学的真正目的。
所以，无论你学的是英语还是其他语言。
都应该教人如何表达，因为那是你能拥有的最具威力的能力。
这才是有激励作用的。如果人们知道这个原因，就会明白为什么要学习写作。
因为这就是你的剑，你的M16步枪，你的防弹衣。
你需要学会如何使用它们。
但让我感到困惑的是，为什么这一点没有被明确传达。
所以，试图弄明白这件事会让人抓狂。
这就好像有种阴谋，把人引入教育系统却让他们变得更弱。
也许这就是为了降低竞争吧，或许可以这么想。
如果你的学生都很愚笨，那他们就不会提出挑战。
