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The Foundation for Critical Thinking aims to improve education in every subject at every level.

Getting Started For those beginning or seeking to strengthen their understanding of critical thinking.

Bookstore Thinker's Guides, books and teacher's manuals, DVDs and classroom materials.

Registration Desk Events, online courses and online tests available for registration.

Calendar of Events Upcoming conferences and workshops presented by the Foundation.

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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.

See our "Where to Begin" section to begin or deepen your understanding of critical thinking concepts.

The 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 degrees, without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on one side or the other. They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of cajolery. Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which it can be truly said that it makes good citizens.

~ William Graham Sumner, Folkways, 1906

[Critical 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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