quotes/works cited practice

In her book Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, author and social activist bell hooks asserts that "Keeping an open mind is an essential requirement of critical thinking... [It is] far too easy to become attached to and protective of one's viewpoint, and to rule out others perspectives."

According to Daniel T. Willingham, Psychologist at the University of Virginia, critical thinking consists "of seeing both sides of an issue, being open to new evidence that disconfirms young ideas, reasoning dispassionately, demanding that claims be backed by evidence, deducing and inferring conclusions from available facts, solving problems, and so forth."

John Taylor Gatto can attest to the problem of boredom in schools in his article "Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids and Why," saying "Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in a teachers' lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited attitudes, to be found there."

Works Cited

hooks, bell. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom. Florence, KY: Taylor & Francis, 2009. Print.

Gatto, John Taylor. "Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids and Why." wesjones.com. Wes Jones Home Page, September 2003. Web. 3 December 2013.

Freire, Paolo. "The Banking Concept of Education." Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York, NY: Herder and Herder, 1970. Print.