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Call for Proposals
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We now seek concurrent sessions proposals for the 34th International Conference which advance a substantive conception of fairminded critical thinking in instruction and in any domain of human life.
Deadline for submission is April 1, 2014.
Editorial by Linda Elder
Does the Common Core Advance a Rigorous Conception of Critical Thinking?
Announcing:
Ralph Nader
- Bertrand Russell Scholar
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34th International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform
- July 26 - 31, 2014
- Berkeley, CA
Join the lecture and conversation as a conference delegate. First 400 registrants will be seated in live auditorium.
Thank you
Elizabeth Loftus
Last year's Bertrand Russell Scholar at the 33rd International Conference July 23rd, 2013 .
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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...
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~ 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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