Pondering Thoughts: How to Think versus Being Educated

How to think, a guiding explanation on how to you know you're thinking or not. Plus how education works in comparsion, be it self education or someone telling you about a topic. Including the differences between how thinking and education function, as with how they are different.
I also go on a few rants in regards to the public school system's modern day failues. This'll only be my opinion on the subject, perhaps you have better explanations, do share them. Maybe even easier ways to guide someone into thinking.