Great Quote by Lionel Trilling

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

— Jerome S. Bruner

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

— Jerome Bruner

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes…

— Richard Rorty

“Interest in academic system-building is dead; however, greater are the efforts by which every educated person seeks to draw the guiding strand of his…

— Ivan Kireyevsky

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

— Agnes Denes

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

— Anonymous

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead…

— David Foster Wallace

“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

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

— John Dewey

“The prescribed mode of thinking that is generated by our educational systems is not conducive to the sort of thinking that new generations should…

— Nora Bateson

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

— Peter Straub