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Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate.
sea of trivia
This argument rests on the premise that we learn best through data collection without the burdens of judgment and discernment.
incessant communication is really a complex manifestation of miscommunication that does not lead to intellectual growth
unearned celebrity
creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.
the European Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, both of which convinced us that we can make a better world through creating knowledge and applying it to human needs
fragments of thought.
Human beings already are prone to think in magical terms
manufactured culture
The celebrity cult replaces real heroes with made-up ones, much to the detriment of children's mental health
it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions
Critical Reflection
A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events
please the gods or fate to survive
problem solving.
Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility
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