“Uncritical pragmatism engenders the doer who will not think beyond the most narrowly technical and profitable; the doer who is incapable of moral reasoning, critical thinking, creativity, and imagination; the doer who despises such things as naïve, time-wasting, or troublesome. The doer-who-will-not-think engenders and imprisons in a stereotypical ivory tower its opposite, the thinker-who-will-not-do.”
Kenneth Paul Tan
“Any criticism of you can never be of your views as such, but for your imposing them on others.”
Catherine Lim
“To say [page 73 girl Thio Su Mien's] claim to authority backfired would be the political understatement of the year.”
Juwel
“..apparently one can facilitate critical thinking, that is, the reasoned questioning of assumptions, norms and values AND fully reinforce and adhere to social norms at the same time.”
Lisa Li
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