Over the years I'm quite sure everyone has been told that learning is essential to one's cognitive development. Without overwhelming itself, learning has been separated into many different "genre's," if you will. Personally, the only type of learning I've been conditioned to indulge in is critical thinking. If I had to define critical thinking, I would have to say that it basically is thinking beyond what is given to you to draw a specific conclusion (or possibly many conclusions).
However, I digress, I'm rambling. One part of learning that was never introduced to me until now is Bloom's Taxonomy; what, to me, is basically an expanded taxonomy of learning and nothing more than a little bit of a waste of space in my mind. Bloom's Taxonomy presents six levels at which specific levels of thinking take place: (from lowest to highest) Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating. What exactly does this mean to the me and anyone who practices things that surpass regular levels of processing? Not much. Excuse the little conceit that I have while talking about this; I don't believe that Bloom's Taxonomy applies to the way that I think. I don't want to say that I feel as though it insult my intelligence, but belittles it, in a way, by confining me processing skills to six levels.
Considering myself to be somewhat of an artisan of writing as well as music, I take offense to this taxonomic entrapment of the human intellect.
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