Audience Quote by Derek Bok

“One of the first things I learned when I began teaching courses in critical thinking in 1974 was that those of us trained in…

— Robert Carroll

“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

“Critical thinking requires reflection and analysis of various viewpoints. This does not mean that all positions are correct—not at all! This simply means that…

— Van Jacob E. Vleet

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

— Pearl Zhu

“The Foundation for Critical Thinking”

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical…

— Derek Bok

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

— R. Alan Woods

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

— Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

“Critical thinking is essential to make sense of our world, especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us loudly that they know best. We…

— Helen Czerski

In some of the classes, especially the introductory religion courses I took, the professors can veer into a particular strain of religious anti-intellectualism. Professors…

— Kevin Roose

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek