"Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging."

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Source : Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

Jane Smiley

#Thinking Quotes #Critical Quotes #Liberal Education Quotes

“In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.”
“On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.”

Source : "The Price Of Arrogance". www.newsweek.com. May 05, 2004.
“I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.”
“When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with the younger generation. They've made us believe that there's not enough men out there for us or that we're only hired because of our looks and not because of our abilities.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“The only argument you can make against having [Confederate] flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...”
“I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.”
“Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.”
“I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.”

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