They wanted us to think critically.

Application of active teaching methods aimed at accustoming children to sound, critical scientific thinking and bringing out their creative abilities in various situations both within the family and outside it

Specifically, what's lacking is the kind of critical thinking work that is so essential in such disciplines as the humanities, the social sciences, business and others.

Take the analytical frameworks, the capabilities you have, apply them to old fears.

Maybe it's his ability to have causal thought.

Preparedness requires strategic thinking, a futuristic mindset and anticipatory skills.

There's none of what is called the chemo head.

All of these categories of failure of rational judgment and decision making are very imperfectly correlated with intelligence meaning that IQ tests tend not to capture individual differences in rational thought. Intelligence tests measure mental skills that have been studied for a long time, whereas psychologists have only recently had the tools to measure the tendencies toward rational and irrational thinking.

This might not be such a grave omission if intelligence were a strong predictor of rational thinking. But my research group found just the opposite it is a mild predictor at best, and some rational thinking skills are totally dissociated from intelligence.

Intelligence tests measure important things, but they do not assess the extent of rational thought. This might not be such a grave omission if intelligence were a strong predictor of rational thinking. But my research group found just the opposite it is a mild predictor at best, and some rational thinking skills are totally dissociated from intelligence.

Maintain rational thought.

I prefer sculpture that challenges your intellect, don't you?

There is movement and this means there is creative thinking, and as long as there is creative thinking our chances of coming up with a viable solution are intact.

Courses in the history of culture taught tolerance for cultural and gender differences and dealt with the gender equality, male and female roles in society and feminism and sought to inculcate creative and critical thinking that went beyond gender differences to the value of individual personality and talents.

A reward system that establishes accountability, enhances creative thinking and unleashes innovative abilities that otherwise could not be expressed

They're really approaching, in many cases surpassing, the ability of the human mind.

Doing philosophy thinking and arguing about it, not just passively reading it develops our critical reasoning abilities, and so equips us for many of the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Perhaps that is why many employers are now keen to hire graduates who have done well in philosophy courses.

But the need for critical thinking has never been as pressing as in the Internet era. At least in developed countries but increasingly in underdeveloped ones as well the problem is no longer one of access to information, but of the lack of ability to process and make sense of that information.

This can and must change, but it requires a grassroots movement that uses blogs, online magazines and newspapers, book clubs and meet up clubs, and anything else that might work to promote educational opportunities to develop critical thinking skills. After all, we do know that it is our future.

And I guess that the question is, is it possible to break free from that mindset?

Ironically, the Nobel Prize was awarded for studies of cognitive characteristics that are entirely missing from the most well known mental assessment device in the behavioral sciences intelligence tests. Scientists and laypeople alike tend to agree that good thinking encompasses sound judgment and decision making the type of thinking that helps us achieve our goals.

Without decisions you cannot see, you cannot think, you cannot feel.

Learning physics can change your way of thinking.

What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination.

Paola Antonelli previews Design and the Elastic Mind

Perhaps some of this attention to intelligence is necessary, but what is not warranted is the tendency to ignore cognitive capacities that are at least equally important the capacities that sustain rational thought and action.

Women's susceptibility to HIV is exacerbated by unequal power between women and men and the use of violence to sustain that imbalance, which limit women's ability to negotiate safe sex.

They also lack the power to negotiate safe sex.

In effect, civic mindedness is treated as outside the realm of what purports to be serious thinking and adult purposes.

Every once in a while, I get somewhat depressed and a little obsessional.

That's typical feminine logic.

Moreover, it is misleading to single out the most misguided comments by individual governors in the context of an active intellectual debate over policy. It is legitimate to criticize individual policymakers who exercised poor judgment, and they should have a mark on their record.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past?

Cities needed the joint efforts of international organizations, mayors and local governments, and mayors were thinking in the right direction by uniting.

Block thought persists in part because its critics on each side are unknown to those on the other side. Indeed, how many times does a critic of European block thought meet this kind of response But where are the Muslims who are criticizing extremist Islam?

Such capability would promote creative thinking to adapt, modify and create new technologies that could contribute to national development and the reduction of casualties and property damage.

Then again, who's to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren't exactly what the world needs?

So this was how it came into my service, and it was different from the men.

You're an animal, incapable of thought.

You see, using this bit, the thinky bit, the slow bit of the brain using that.

The commander told me that a woman could gauge a potentially violent situation much better than men.

Leadership theorists suggest that we should pay less attention to leaders policy promises than to their emotional intelligence their self mastery and ability to reach out to others. Contrary to the view that emotions interfere with clear thinking, the ability to understand and regulate emotions can result in more effective thinking.

Why can't an equivalent case be made for nature?

The time has come for some creative new thinking.

(viii) Build the capacity of law enforcement bodies and the public to protect human rights through proactive programmes of human rights education that are gender and child sensitive and promote a critical analysis