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"But I would say that there’s probably very little we would want to teach in higher education – and probably also in secondary education – that involves rote memorization, because we want to involve higher order thinking, rather than just memorization. So that means that any discipline involving mental models, interpretation, or independent thinking skills, would be suitable for peer instruction."

I'm not a native speaker of Russian, so the right word for "independent" here is really stumping me. Would самостоятельный do?