The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.
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