CRITICAL THINKING is often confused with finding things to disagree with. Perhaps the word “critical” is what gets in our way. Actually, critical thinking is more about depth: critical thinkers look under issues and state truths that haven’t been spoken: What are the larger ramifications of this discussion? What are the motivations and belief systems…
Sometimes I get the coolest emails from people. One in particular, from someone named Eileen, has been sitting in my inbox for two months. It’s given me so much food for thought that I haven’t been able to file it away. The subject line of the email is: “as if…metaphor is the new critical thinking?”…
Yesterday I came across something I wrote in 2000, at a time when I was opening up my creative channels. I’d completed my Ph.D. in 1996 and taught for a few years, but came to a point where I needed to completely disengage from the “PH.D.” and open the door to a broader range of…
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