Title: Why Critical Thinking Is So Important - Intercultural Solutions
Headings: Why Critical Thinking Is So Important
Why Critical Thinking Is So Important
Why critical thinking?
The Problem of Egocentric Thinking
The Problem of Sociocentric Thinking
Envisioning Critical Societies
If we want critical societies we must create them.

Content: They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, on influenced 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. -William Graham Sumner, 1906
Humans have the capacity to be rational and fair. But this capacity must be developed. It will be significantly developed only if critical societies emerge. Critical societies will develop only to the extent that: Critical thinking is viewed as a central to living a reasonable and fairminded life. Critical thinking is routinely taught;