text: Students with critical thinking skills are more likely to do better in school. Thinking skills have a positive effect on students because it helps them solve problems efficiently and new techniques that will help them in school. For example, a student completes a teacher-designed project but does not learn much information. Since he did exactly what the teacher wanted, he was not able to research information by himself, which would have helped him develop skills for the future. If the project the student made was student-designed, then he would have been able to learn how to research information and learn new things. This would also help many students to learn during break.