the all-thing | 2010-09-04 16:52:17 -0400 ========================================== Pinker on Critical Thinking --------------------------- Date: July 4, 2010 5:58am Author: William Morgan Labels: media URL: http://all-thing.net/pinker-on-critical-thinking.txt "[D]on’t rail at PowerPoint or Google. It’s not as if habits of deep reflection, thorough research and rigorous reasoning ever came naturally to people. They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call analysis, criticism and debate. They are not granted by propping a heavy encyclopedia on your lap, nor are they taken away by efficient access to information on the Internet." -- Steven Pinker [1] (or Twitter!) [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11Pinker.html This delicious text version served up by Whisper .