Acceptance Quote by George Polya

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

— George Santayana

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

— Edward Carpenter

My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades…

— Henry George

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

— Gillian Jacobs

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

— Oren Etzioni

“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

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

— Margaret Heffernan

“Bad ideas can lead to brilliant ideas.”

— Jen Fraser

“The Foundation for Critical Thinking”

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Critical Thinking brings insight into the situation.”

— Pearl Zhu