There is a need for us as instructors to slowly build the concepts of discipline, questioning, reasoning and judgement as well as introspection in our students..... especially if we take into consideration what the students of today have as expectations for college level course work. If we push to hard these lazy, entitled students we see today will shut down because the demands of critical thinking are novel, intense and frankly, scary when we look at their current skill set. Educating them on the benefits of these factors in critical thinking and then demanding that they apply these skills in a progressive manner will hopefully allow them to build themselves up as opposed to shutting down.
