Critical Thinking..

...extract from critical thinking  by Dr.Richard Van De Lagemaat...

- we can all too easily end up identifyong our own culture's way of looking at reality with the only possible way of looking at reality

- the business of constructing reality out of our own limited,fallible and sometimes jaundiced experience is an essentially moral task

- the single most effective way of moving towards a richer,more insightful,and generally more inclusive understanding of the world is to look at it from a variety of different perspectives


- Language is another powerful knowledge filter

- we are aware of the various ways in which our belief systems can be distorted and are occasionally willing to examine them,we are unlikely to rise above our own cultural prejudices and move towards a more inclusive understanding of humanity

- international education in general and critical thinking in particular can make a modest but significant contribution to making the world a safer and more tolerant place.