I was part of an awesome program called innovations for my last year of highschool. It was based on the ideas of critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration. Basically I designed my own projects starting with a 'big question' and then had to answer that question, often very elaborately, using only resources I found myself. Beforehand I was already big on critical thinking, but this forced me to learn this way, the natural way in my opinion, and now I am incredibly confident in my ability to research and think critically about what I read. It has led me to some very in depth projects that I still am elaborating upon, and which I even use as steemit content! Critical thinking is a favorite skill of mine, and I hope more schools will adopt this innovations program.