One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A “critique,” a term that is both a noun and a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
“All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision,… — Li Ka-shing Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a kid who engages in critical thinking, you're not going to shut them down when they ask… — Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Copy Share Image
Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“Some scientists have actually done this and guess what? They haven’t found a significant correlation between phases of the Moon and hospital… — Robert Carroll Copy Share Image
“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The New Dimension is peaceful, and all work here just as they do on Earth. It’s a place where learning, knowledge and… — Solon Copy Share Image
“MY PROCESS I got bullied quite a bit as a kid, so I learned how to take a punch and how to… — Zach Neese Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don't have… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. Comments display our universal failure to teach and value… — Travis Nichols Copy Share Image
My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world.… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We must prepare people to be nimble enough to adapt to an ever-evolving marketplace. And we must help them develop skills that… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking,… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
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“[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea,… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
What I learned in school made me a better journalist and a better writer because forensic science is, as scientific disciplines must… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television… — Brewster Kahle Copy Share Image
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Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don't learn… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“11 Benefits of Asking Questions “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
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“Student-engaged assessment involves students in underst anding and in vesting in their own growth. It changes the primary role of assessment from… — Ron Berger Copy Share Image
“Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the… — Robert T. Weston Copy Share Image
“I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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