Logic & Critical Thinking
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From  The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making From: The Power Manual |
The Social Aspects of Choice, focuses on how choice is informed by one’s environment and how one participates in collective choice. I highlight what I found most important about Carole … | Cyndi Suarez | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Weapons of Mass Instruction |
The trapped flea strategy; ugliness; the horse-in-box effect; the artificial extension of childhood; misdirection; the cauldron of broken time: these and more are some deadly Weapons of Mass … | John Taylor Gatto | 46 | 2010 | $4.60 Add |
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From  Duped and HowSelf-Regulating Psychopath with Joel Bakan and Noam Chomsky |
An over reliance on facts and a questionable belief in the power of reason contribute to today’s toxic conversations and acrimonious dialogue, but another area of great concern is … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Step 3: Developing Strategies – CommunicationCommunication: Creating Effective Messages |
Much of human communication involves persuasion. Whether done by a four-year-old or a marketing firm, the aims are the same: to influence our attitudes and/or our behavior. The transition to a … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 21 | 2011 | $0.42 Add |
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From  Taking ActionFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
If we can accept that the global eco-social crisis is human caused, we have the possibility of taking effective action. Taking action is one of the best ways to nurture intrinsic hope. … | Kate Davies | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From What is Education? |
According to Kant, four questions live at the heart of all educational quests: What can I know? What may I hope? What ought I to do? What is man? School policy in America is made by people who … | John Taylor Gatto | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From A Letter to my Granddaughter about Dartmouth |
You just turned 17 this month, granddaughter, and you’ll be leaving the nest for college soon, I suppose. I wish you wouldn’t, but I know better than to say that, so at least let me … | John Taylor Gatto | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
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From Perserving for the Long HaulFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
Perseverance helps to nurture intrinsic hope because it gives us the determination to endure whatever happens. Perseverance persists — day after day, month after month, and year after year. … | Kate Davies | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From Step 3: Developing Strategies – IncentivesIncentives: Enhancing Motivation to Act |
Financial incentives can provide the motivation for individuals to perform an activity that they already engage in more effectively, such as recycling, or to begin an activity that they otherwise … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 12 | 2011 | $0.12 Add |
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From ConclusionPandora's Gift From: Intrinsic Hope |
Intrinsic hope is a choice we can each make every moment of our lives. We can’t choose the circumstances of our birth and we may not have much choice about the circumstances of our death, … | Kate Davies | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
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From Duped and HowAssault on Democracy with Alex Himelfarb |
Himelfarb believes that the Right prefers to shut down public discourse and that modern life makes it easy for this to happen. Issues of the common good often don’t make it to the table. It … | James Hoggan | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From Incident at Highland High |
Last January, a sixteen-year-old German girl — shy and well-behaved — was arrested in her home in Nuremberg, Germany, by fifteen armed policemen. Her crime was homeschooling. Reading … | John Taylor Gatto | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From Step 3: Developing Strategies – BarriersConvenience: Making it Easy to Act |
If the behavior is unpleasant or time-consuming, for example, no matter how well you address internal barriers your community-based social marketing strategy will be unsuccessful. The first step … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 9 | 2011 | $0.90 Add |
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From  The Uncritical Acceptance of New TechnologiesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Uncritical Acceptance of New Technologies discusses five topics related to the widespread belief in the inevitability of technological change: the myth of value-neutrality, the technological … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 20 | 2011 | $2.00 Add |
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From AfterwordInvitation to an Open Conspiracy: The Bartleby Project |
The whole diseased empire of institutional schooling is, like the wonderful one-horse shay, extremely fragile. Its most vulnerable point, the glue that holds the thing together, is standardized … | John Taylor Gatto | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From Developing Strategies – Revisited |
The preceding seven chapters introduced a series of behavior change tools that can be incorporated into a communitybased social marketing strategy. To showcase how to utilize these tools, a … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 7 | 2011 | $0.70 Add |
