Patience is Key
Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob Riis
Why Teach Critical Thinking?
Education is at a crossroads. The old model—where students sat in silence, absorbing information like empty vessels—no longer serves a world overflowing with knowledge, misinformation, and competing narratives. Today, memorization is obsolete. The ability to think critically is what separates the informed from the misled, the independent from the manipulated.