{"ops":[{"insert":"We recently received the following email from a critical thinking enthusiast! We are pleased to share it with you; please post your accomplishments in this main feed for all to share:\n\n\nDear Foundation for Critical Thinking,\nI am pleased to share the link of my article that was just accepted by Thinking Skills and Creativity. The article tackles dominant and emerging perspectives on Critical Thinking, including Bloom's higher-order thinking skills, Paul-Elder's fairminded critical thinking, Freire's sociocritical awareness, and others. This work is greatly inspired by Paul-Elder´s fairminded critical thinking, so almost one entire section is devoted to it and references of this theoretical framework are cited throughout the paper. If you or people around are working on similar topics, this paper could be useful. You may cite the paper and share the link with your contacts as well, as encouraged by the journal, to reach a wider number of readers and citations. This link below and online paper will be available for only fifty days as this has an embargo period of two years. This is a pre-proof version of the paper, meaning that the journal is working in the final edition. If you have difficulties to open and download the article, use a computer (not a cellphone) and your internet account from your university.\nI am very grateful for such wonderful contribution of Paul and Linda through their Fairminded Critical Thinking.\nKind regards\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2019.100610"},"insert":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2019.100610"},{"insert":"\n"}]}

Today my Teenage son, who considers himself very progressive and enlightened, and thinks his parents don't understand his generation (and I agree I do not understand them) asked me to purchase him a High School year book for $100. When I asked what the kids at his school did who could not afford such a thing did, that it seemed unfair to me and discriminatory against a large portion of the student body. We talked for 15 mins about what could be done, I made suggestions and tried to get him to see the inherent bias in the system, in the end he said "I just want a yearbook, I am not going to do anything about it". That statement cuts core of the problem with peoples thinking. We just want what we want and we really do not care about how it effects other people or how we can make things better.

If everyone just waits for someone else to change the system, who will ever make the change?