Summary of Julie Bogart's Raising Critical Thinkers EPUB

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 Critical thinking is a tool that we use to help us live. It is a process of strategic reasoning, insightfulness, perseverance, creativity, and craftsmanship. It allows us to interpret and act.

#2 Educators want children to be critical thinkers. They want them to be able to identify their perceptions, what causes them to trust one source of information and distrust another, and why they accept some ideas as true while they reject others as false.

#3 The unreliable narrator is the first literary device that Noah encounters. The wolf’s woe-is-me story is a dead giveaway that the wolf is not using his own critical thinking faculties. Instead, he uses a self-serving defense to disguise his misdeeds.

#4 We all have a tendency to trust our own opinions and sources of information, but how do we know which ones to trust. Which perspectives of historical events are accurate. We constantly ask these questions when we read, listen to, or contemplate any input.