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  • The intelligent person, the one who truly is a practitioner of critical thinking, has the capacity to understand the lessons of history, to grasp the inner logic of science and mathematics, and to realize the meaning of philosophical debates by studying them.
  • The intelligent person, the one who truly is a practitioner of critical thinking, has the capacity to understand the lessons of history, to grasp the inner logic of science and mathematics, and to realize the meaning of philosophical debates by studying them.
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  • • The intelligent person, the one who truly is a practitioner of critical thinking, has the capacity to understand the lessons of history, to grasp the inner logic of science and mathematics, and to realize the meaning of philosophical debates by studying them.
    • The intelligent person, the one who truly is a practitioner of critical thinking, has the capacity to understand the lessons of history, to grasp the inner logic of science and mathematics, and to realize the meaning of philosophical debates by studying them.
    • The intelligent person, the one who truly is a practitioner of critical thinking, has the capacity to understand the lessons of history, to grasp the inner logic of science and mathematics, and to realize the meaning of philosophical debates by studying them
    • The intelligent person, the one who truly is a practitioner of critical thinking, has the capacity to understand the lessons of history, to grasp the inner logic of science and mathematics, and to realize the meaning of philosophical debates by studying them.
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  • For the past century, our schools of education have obsessed over critical-thinking skills, projects, cooperative learning, experiential learning, and so on. But they have paid precious little attention to the disciplinary knowledge that young people need to make sense of the world.
  • We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically without quite a lot of knowledge to think about
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  Jamie Baker

  not quite sure how I feel about this article yet. Ravitch is certainly a thought leader and I believe in the necessity of balance of content and skills, but I think there has been a fundamental change that is not factored in here which is knowledge is so easily accessible, available not as staid as in the past. Feels like more is missing

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      Jamie Baker on 2009-09-15

      so sorry to see Ms. Ravitch use this word. Education is averse enough as it is to adapting to the current new paradigm of global and performance and customer-centered that we have to use emotionall charged and dismissive words like "fad". Otherwise, good article.
  • skill-centered, knowledge-free education has never worked.
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  • • In 1911, the dean of the education school at Stanford called on his fellow educators to abandon their antiquated academic ideals and adapt education to the real life and real needs of students.
    • They inserted into American education a deeply ingrained suspicion of academic studies and subject matter. For the past century, our schools of education have obsessed over critical-thinking skills, projects, cooperative learning, experiential learning, and so on. But they have paid precious little attention to the disciplinary knowledge that young people need to make sense of the world.
    • We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically without quite a lot of knowledge to think about. Thinking critically involves comparing and contrasting and synthesizing what one has learned. And a great deal of knowledge is necessary before one can begin to reflect on its meaning and look for alternative explanations.

    • Until we teach both teachers and students to value knowledge and to love learning, we cannot expect them to use their minds well.

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  Cheryl van Tilburg

  Diane Ravitch hammers it home: content knowledge is a fundamental building block of critical thinking. Without it, "critical thinking" is just another lame education fad that won't end up helping the kids.

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  Jamie Baker on 2009-09-15
  so sorry to see Ms. Ravitch use this word. Education is averse enough as it is to adapting to the current new paradigm of global and performance and customer-centered that we have to use emotionall charged and dismissive words like "fad". Otherwise, good article.

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