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“When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where despite the recent proliferation of courses…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

“Can critical thinking actually be taught? Decades of cognitive research point to a disappointing answer: not really. People who have sought to teach critical…

— Terry Marselle

“Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

“Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.”

— Richard Paul

“Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. "Critical thinking" may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on…

— Anonymous

“Critical Thinking is not automatic thinking. It takes extra effort to think critically.”

— Pearl Zhu

Critical thinking is what leads to the next breakthroughs in any area.

— Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

“If students merely recite academic concepts from books and their instructors' verbal lectures, it will not help them to clearly understand course material contents…

— Saaif Alam

Since we don't know with any certainty what specific aptitudes today's students will need tomorrow, we need to ensure they have the critical thinking…

— Eric Adams

“Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal test,”

— Susan Cain

“Critical Thinking is also called structured thinking.”

— Pearl Zhu