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Join us for ... The World's Longest Running Annual Conference on Critical Thinking


Sessions include:

  • Teaching Students to Think Within a Field or Discipline
  • Critical Thinking and the Common Core Standards
  • Using the Tools of Critical Thinking to Teach Students How to Study and Learn
  • Dialogues with Richard Paul
  • Teaching Students Fundamental and Powerful Concepts
  • For Administrators: Understanding the Long-Term Nature of Professional Development in Critical Thinking

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Elizabeth Loftus

This year's Bertrand Russell Distinguished Scholar:
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
Cognitive Psychologist and Human Memory Scholar
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Thinker's Guide Series
Active and Cooperative-Learning Analytic Thinking Art of Socratic Questioning The Aspiring Thinker's Guide Critical & Creative Thinking Critical Thinking Competency Standards Critical Thinking Reading & Writing Test Critical Thinking, Concepts & Tools Engineering Reasoning Ethical Reasoning Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery How to Detect Media Bias & Propaganda How to Improve Student Learning How to Read a Paragraph How to Study & Learn How to Write a Paragraph Scientific Thinking Taking Charge of the Human Mind The Art of Asking Essential Questions A Critical Thinker's Guide to Educational Fads Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms and Concept
The Thinker's Series Books

The Thinker's Guide Library

Set of 22 Guides. Only $69.50
Also available individually.
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Our Mission and Memberships

The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools. We present publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards.

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What We Believe

he critical habit of thought, if usual 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... Read more »
~ William Graham Sumner, Folkways, 1906

ritical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.
~ Francis Bacon (1605)


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