Critical Thinking -- How Soon We Forget

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D. Spencer Hines

Critical Thinking -- How Soon We Forget

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 22 sep 2007 03:03:38

William Graham Sumner offers a useful summary of critical thinking:

The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its
mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life.

Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to
believe.

They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without
certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence,
uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on
one side or the other.

They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of
cajolery. Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which
it can be truly said that it makes good citizens.

Martin Luther King said:

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively
and to think critically . . . The complete education gives one not only
power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

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DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Exitus Acta Probat

The Bensham Cunt

Re: Critical Thinking -- How Soon We Forget

Legg inn av The Bensham Cunt » 22 sep 2007 04:20:47

On Sep 22, 12:03 pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote:
William Graham Sumner offers a useful summary of critical thinking:

The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its
mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life.

Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to
believe.

They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without
certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence,
uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on
one side or the other.

They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of
cajolery. Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which
it can be truly said that it makes good citizens.

Martin Luther King said:

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively
and to think critically . . . The complete education gives one not only
power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

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DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Exitus Acta Probat

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Ray O'Hara

Re: Critical Thinking -- How Soon We Forget

Legg inn av Ray O'Hara » 22 sep 2007 22:38:20

"D. Spencer Hines" <panther@excelsior.com> wrote in message
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William Graham Sumner offers a useful summary of critical thinking:

The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its
mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life.

Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow
to
believe.

They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without
certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence,
uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made
on
one side or the other.

They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of
cajolery. Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which
it can be truly said that it makes good citizens.

Martin Luther King said:

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think
intensively
and to think critically . . . The complete education gives one not only
power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.


wonderful now why don't you apply those principles to yourself.

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