Teaching Critical Thinking Quotes

“Patriarchy has no gender.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“Students who excel in active listening also contribute much to the formation of community. This is also true of students who may not speak often but when they speak (sometimes only when reading required writing) the significance of what they have to say far exceeds those of other students who may always openly discuss ideas. And of course there are times when an active silence, one that includes pausing to think before one speaks, adds much to classroom dynamics.”
― Bell Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“When everyone in the classroom, teacher and students, recognizes that they are responsible for creating a learning community together, learning is at its most meaningful and useful.”
― Bell Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“Thinking is an action. For all aspiring intellectuals, thoughts are the laboratory where one goes to pose questions and find answers, and the place where visions of theory and praxis come together. The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing to know—to understand how life works. Children are organically predisposed to be critical thinkers. Across the boundaries of race, class, gender, and circumstance, children come into the world of wonder and language consumed with a desire for knowledge. Sometimes they are so eager for knowledge that they become relentless interrogators—demanding”
― Bell Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“see first-hand the ways that democratic education is being undermined as the interests of big business and corporate capitalism encourage students to see education solely as a means to achieve material success. Such thinking makes acquiring information more important than gaining knowledge or learning how to think critically.”
― Bell Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“...it is the most militant, most radical intervention anyone can make to not only speak of love, but to engage in the practice of love. For love as the foundation of all social movements for self-determination is the only way we create a world that domination and dominator thinking cannot destroy. Anytime we do the work of love we are doing the work of ending domination.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“I knew that I wanted to follow their example and become a teacher who would help students become self-directed learners.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“Paul and Elder remind us: Critical thinkers are clear as to the purpose at hand and the question at issue. They question information, conclusions and point of view. They strive to be clear, accurate, precise, and relevant. They seek to think beneath the surface, to be logical and fair. They apply these skills to their reading and writing as well as to their speaking and listening. Critical thinking”
― Bell Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“The only canons I formed in my mind were filled with the writers with whom I felt a soul inspiring resonance, the writers whose works were great to me because they gave me words, wisdom, and visions powerful enough to transform me and my world.”
― Bell Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“they do not believe they must work to maintain democracy. They may not even associate democracy with the ideal of equality.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“Tenemos en nuestras manos este futuro posible, pero no por deseo y voluntad, sino por pensamiento, planificación, conocimiento y organización.”
― bell hooks, Enseñar pensamiento crítico (Ciclogénesis nº 17)