302 Quotes About Critical-thinking

For those of you who really want to give critical thought to your unique leadership style and foster genuine followership, learn from what’s out there and weave it into something meaningful and authentic.

Chester, listen to me!” Uncle Jeff said, holding his face. “It’s a sacrifice, for God.”“This is so wrong!” Chester fought back.“Chester! Be quiet!” he heard his mother’s voice from the living room.“Believe me, Chester. The animal doesn’t feel a thing.” Uncle Jeff tried to calm him down. “Its soul departs for heaven even before the blade touches its skin.” he explained.“Nice way to rationalize murder,” said Chester, walking towards the stairs.

The early removal from school of future officers of Britain's seapower, leaving them unacquainted with the subject matter and ideas of the distant and recent past, may account for the incapacity of no military thinking in a world that devoted itself to military action. With little thought of strategy, no study of the theory of war or of planned objective, war's glorious art may have been glorious, but with individual exceptions, it was more or less mindless.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

De omnibus dubitandum. (Doubt everything.)

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

P14 - People educate each other through the mediation of the world

Policy makers and politicians want more STEM; educators want more STEAM. Both, in ways that are eerily similar, are engaging in social engineering to support an ideology. At the macro-level, in both worlds, it’s all about teaching a point of view, rather than teaching students to learn. We seem hell bent on an arbitrarily linear approach to engineering a “useful” or job-securing education, from which we continue to get mixed results.

As students cross the threshold from outside to insider, they also cross the threshold from superficial learning motivated by grades to deep learning motivated by engagement with questions. Their transformation entails an awakening--even, perhaps, a falling in love.