Higher-Order Thinking Quotes

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.