Critical Thinking x Education Level
Here are a few of quotes from great thinkers who remind us that education is not synonymous with critical thinking. bell hooks speaks of her grandmother: She was poor all her life. Her memory stands as a challenge to intellectuals, especially those on the left, who assume that the capacity to think critically, in abstract concepts, to be theoretical, is a function of class and educational privilege. Contemporary intellectuals committed to progressive politics must be reminded again and again that the capacity to name something (particularly in writing terms like aesthetics, postmodernism, deconstruction, etc.) is not synonymous with the creation or ownership of the condition or circumstance to which such terms may refer. p. 112 of Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics by bell hooks And now some reminders from Sarah Smarsh: Hateful dismissals of those with low incomes, dirty jobs, or "uneducated" backgrounds leave us unable to recognize that such people not only are...
