Promoting Critical Thinking Quotes

Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

If you're a leader at any level and your people aren't challenging you, you've got to change that or you can't be a leader here because you're not going to be using ideas, you're not going to have innovation, you're not going to fully develop your people. And if you're working in a group and you don't challenge, then you're not really doing your job.

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.