Episode 63 - Is Critical Thinking Critical: Another Just Two Ones Discussion

The Hopeful Humanist Cafe

Welcome to another "Just Two Ones" episode where Danielson and I talk about a bunch of thoughts connected to Critical Thinking with a short special appearance from Woodrow. Let's blither ...

ORIENTING THOUGHTS:

1) “Moving beyond I don’t know” (Danielson)

2) Memorizing is not learning. (Danielson)

T-SHIRT IDEAS:

1)"Read Widely" & "Imagine the Unimaginable" both by Danielson

2) "Just Two Ones Among 7.9 Billion" by Steve The Hopeful Humanist. Click here to discover the changing world population ... https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

QUOTATIONS:

1) "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution" - Einstein

2) "Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action" - The Foundation for Critical Thinking. Click here for a deeper dive into a definition for critical thinking ... https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

RESOURCES:

1) Penn Jillette: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/tuesday-march-23-2021-harry-connick-jr-penn-jillette-and-more-1.5959037

2) Stephen Brookfield: https://www.amazon.ca/Power-Critical-Theory-Liberating-Learning/dp/0787956015

3) Micheal Patrick Lynch: https://www.amazon.ca/Know-All-Society-Dogmatism-Arrogance/dp/1631493612

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