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20 Of The Best Quotes About Knowledge

“Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge of it.” –Wendell Berry

Critical Thinking / February 20, 2023 February 28, 2023 / Inquiry, Questioning

Teaching students to ask good questions engages them & acts as ongoing assessment. Here are some of the benefits of inquiry-based learning.

Critical thinking is the suspension of judgment while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions.

“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”

The difference between fallacies and biases is fallacies are real-time thinking errors while biases are pre-dispositions for future errors.

A question is only a strategy (for inquiry) and must therefore have a purpose if we want to evaluate its quality.

From this practice, you learn to experience, to realize, that what happens to you, and what you do are one in the same process.

Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding?

As they are learning, give students the opportunity to articulate their thought process of how they came up with their solution to a puzzle.

Critical Thinking / February 22, 2022 February 19, 2023 / Inquiry

According to the creators, the question formulation technique helps build skills for lifelong learning, self-advocacy & democratic action.

As teachers incorporate collaborative learning in their lesson plans, it is critical that they model active listening to their students.

The goal of the Socratic seminar is to foster critical thinking by examining inaccurate/incomplete beliefs and the assumptions behind them.