Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin | Edutopia - 56 views
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Critical thinking reduces the power of advertisers, the unscrupulous and the pretentious, and can neutralize the sway of an unsupported argument. This is a skill most students enjoy learning because they see immediately that it gives them more control.
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People believe stories because they are the ones available.
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we are surrounded by illusions, many of them deliberately created.
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