Critical Thinking Quotes - Page 5

• I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

  Daniel Levitin

  Thinking, Lawyer, Scientist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Teaching, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Legal training has been quite useful in developing critical thinking. Whether one attains it in mathematics, philosophy or law, an analytic grounding can add great value in defining and confronting complex problems, or laying out a path to implement a vision.

  James M Strock

  Philosophy, Thinking, Training

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• 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 typically aren't given tenure at Liberty, so there's pressure to hew to the party line on religious and social issues. I didn't see a whole lot of my professors encouraging critical thinking among their students. Which isn't to say that students don't engage critical thinking skills at Liberty - just that it wasn't part of my classroom experience there.

  Kevin Roose

  Religious, Party, Thinking

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• There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

  Alec Baldwin

  Country, Taken, Thinking

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• In every circumstance, though the nation has liberated already and we have worked for the nation, or we have not, providing the foundation for critical thinking to the people is still important.

  Khem Veasna

  Thinking, People, Important

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• The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Rejection

  Massimo Pigliucci (2010). “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

  Derek Bok

  Senior, College, Thinking

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• I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that I find more intimidating and far more painful an experience. It's the lack of critical thinking. It's the endless snarky, mean way we talk about each other, we approach each other. The anonymity of being cruel, the delight in tearing people down. The tabloid era that we find ourselves in is a cultural boneyard, and that is painful to me.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Katie Couric to Interview Sarah Jessica Parker in First ABC News Appearance (Exclusive)" by Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 5, 2011.

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• In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

  Katha Pollitt

  Teacher, Exercise, Thinking

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• I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking.

  Lil B

  Thinking, People, Earth

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need for the competition of ideas or critical thinking. So the curriculum will be up to the school to determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will welcome this opportunity to spend a large portion of our income on education and choose an ideology at the same time.

  David A. Strauss

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

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