Culture Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre

“My belief is that if you learn how to think like a professional, from the start, you will almost undoubtedly become a professional, given…

— Rob Parnell

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

— Lionel Trilling

“Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions”

— Anonymous

“In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.”

— Jerome S. Bruner

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what…

— Derek Bok

Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a…

— Edward de Bono

“The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems…

— William Graham Sumner

“In a world where critical thinking skills are almost wholly absent, repetition effectively leapfrogs the cognitive portion of the brain. It helps something get…

— Laura Bynum

“…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination”

— H.G. Wells

“diminished creative thinking and”

— Otto F. Kernberg

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

— Jerome Bruner

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

— Kedar Joshi