Introduction Steven (1991) defined critical thinking as “correct thinking in the pursuit of relevant and reliable knowledge about the world”. Steven further states that “it is reasonable, reflective, responsible, and skillful thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do”. It is worth noting at this stage that anybody who thinks critically is capable of asking relevant and appropriate questions, congregate needed information and data, effectively, efficiently and creatively sort through this information and data logically argue from the congregated information and data and finally come to a conclusion. Critical thinking is not low order thinking which basically involves processing of information that enables one to know where to cross the road, when to go to bed and or go for lunch but a high order thinking that can help a person to, for example, to critically analyze and evaluate societal health needs, assess the impacts of climate change on agricultural activities and to judge what is good and bad for himself in terms of to drink or not to drink alcohol. The ability to critically think is not inborn and cannot be developed naturally beyond survival level thinking; therefore, only one option is left, to learn it. It must be taught and taught well by qualified professionals. Haskins (2006) on the other hand defined critical thinking as “A process by which we use our knowledge and intelligence to effectively arrive at the most reasonable and justifiable positions on issues, and which endeavors to identify and overcome the numerous hindrances to rational thinking” (p. 2). Haskins goes a head and explains that being intelligent and or possessing massive knowledge is not a guarantee for one to be a critical thinker. Being intelligent and possessing knowledge qualifies one to be a critical thinker only if these two are used to draw appropriate and accurate conclusions, reach objective and rationale view points. Attributes of a Critical Thinker Ferrett (1997) in his work titled ‘attributes of a critical thinker’ came up with attributes that are characteristic of a critical thinker. Ferrett stated that a critical thinker should: “asks pertinent questions, assesses statements and arguments, is able to admit a lack of understanding or information, has a sense of curiosity, is interested in finding new solutions, is able to clearly define a set of criteria for analyzing ideas, is willing to examine beliefs, assumptions, and opinions and weigh them against facts, listens carefully to others and is able to give feedback, sees that critical thinking is a lifelong process of self-assessment, suspends judgment until all facts have been gathered and considered, looks for evidence to support assumption and beliefs, is able to adjust opinions when new facts are found, looks for proof, examines problems closely, is able to reject information that is incorrect or irrelevant” This list is not exhaustive as some attributes vary from one critical thinker to another. These attributes are to be learned, it is a process that needs a lot of perseverance and patience. One cannot acquire them overnight but rather needs to work hard towards achieving them through learning and practicing. Becoming a critical thi