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How to Train Your Brain: An Introduction to Logic | with Shanda Fulbright

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

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The Importance of Critical Thinking

What to think is easy. You get information and you don't process it or critically think through it. And then what to think is passive. We're talking about just getting the information in. It makes you a consumer rather than a producer. How to think is active. Again, we're critically thinking about the information and processing it and evaluating the evidence to see if it's true before we adopt something as a belief. So instead of teaching kids this in grammar school or high school, we are just teaching them what to think. Here are the values you should have, not thinking through them. Instead of using your mind to discover what is true,. not determine what is true, discover what

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