Doesn't emotionally intelligent critical thinking sound pretty good right now?

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The weekends' chat-shows had this rich-dude calling-out the importance of 'critical thinking' in our recent financial crises.

In a nutshell, Critical thinkers reflect-and-replace things-that-go-wrong with-stuff-that-actually-works...'got me screaming where-you-been-hiding all-my-life.

Also begs the question -- 'how can we apply lessons-learned here to avoid another messy-time from happening again?

'Brings me to this article by Kimberly Wickham: 'Philosophy as the Missing Link – An Eye-Opening Audit of Our School’s Curriculum.'

I remember studying Philosophy back in college -- (which is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language) -- and felt my brain hurting, but in a good way...
  • added October 13, 2008
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3 responses // Doesn't emotionally intelligent critical thinking sound pretty good right now?

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    You're asking for a lot, I hope you know that.

    JohnA
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    It shouldn't be a lot to ask people to think critically about their present situations.

    abbym0308
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    Ask for a lot, get what is prudent. Works in Mississippi, works in Hong Kong.

    That philosophy works for just about everybody, I recall.

    The other stuff - the greatest good for the fewest people? It's still got the same sellers pitching that trickle-down snakeoil, but it just doesn't seem so sound these days, does it?

    AveryMoore

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