Title: Critical Thinking
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Critical  Thinking: Distinguishing Between Inert Information, Activated Ignorance,
Activated Knowledge
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Content: This catchy phrase often sticks in their mind. It leads them to  think they understand what it means, though most of them do not  translate it into any practical criteria for assessing the extent  to which democracy does or does not exist in any given country. Most people, to be explicit, could not intelligibly answer any of  the following questions: What is the difference  between a government of the people and a government for the people? What is the difference  between a government for the people and a government by the people? What is the difference  between a government by the people and a government of the people? What exactly is meant  by “the people?” To generalize, students  often do not sufficiently think about information they memorize  in school sufficient to transform it into something meaningful in  their mind. Much human information is, in the mind of the humans  who possess it, merely empty words (inert or dead in the mind). Critical thinkers try to clear the mind of inert information by  recognizing it as such and transforming it, through analysis, into  something meaningful.