Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
When Our Children Are Old Enough, And If We Can Afford To, We Send Them To College, Where Despite The Recent Proliferation Of Courses On 'happiness' And 'positive Psychology,' The Point Is To Acquire The Skills Not Of Positive Thinking But Of *critical* Thinking, And Critical Thinking Is Inherently Skeptical. The Best Students
And In Good Colleges, Also The Most Successful
Are The Ones Who Raise Sharp Questions, Even At The Risk Of Making A Professor Momentarily Uncomfortable. Whether The Subject Is Literature Or Engineering, Graduates Should Be Capable Of Challenging Authority Figures, Going Against The Views Of Their Classmates, And Defending Novel Points Of View.
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