Thinking About Thinking
Plan on making the CTC one of your stops on your Internet philosophy tour. While you're there, ponder these words of William Graham Sumner, featured prominently in the site's overview of the History of Critical Thinking:
A teacher of any subject who insists on accuracy and a rational control of all processes and methods, and who holds everything open to unlimited verification and revision is cultivating that method as a habit in the pupils. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded...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...They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices...Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which it can be truly said that it makes good citizens.
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