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: The failure to see sociocentric thinking as a significant impediment to intellectual development. Sociocentric thinking is a hallmark of an uncritical society. It can be diminished only when replaced by cross-cultural, fairminded thinking – critical thinking in the strong sense. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools, by Richard Paul
Envisioning Critical Societies
The critical habit of thought, if unusual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators… 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, 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.