
Clearing the Fog: Reflective Thinking and the Socratic Seminar
Critical thinking has become a catch-all phrase in any education literature that touts the development of 21st century learning. It
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“I want to cultivate the capacity for second thoughts, by which I mean the stance and the competence that makes it feasible to inquire into the obvious. This is what I call learning.”
—Ivan Illich, “Ascesis”

Critical thinking has become a catch-all phrase in any education literature that touts the development of 21st century learning. It

Ask any group of faculty whether they include critical thinking on their course learning objectives, and nearly every person will

When I was an undergraduate, I distinctly remember my political science professor informing the class, “If you take one thing
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