Critical Thinking Quotes - Page 5

• In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.

  Nicholas Lemann

  School, Thinking, Skills

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.

  Darrel Ray

  Children, Thinking, People

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• Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.

  Michael Dell

  Teamwork, Dream, Unique

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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