Critical Thinking Recommended Reading List

“Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you’re thinking in order to make your thinking better.” ~Richard Paul

“The over-whelming preponderance of people have not freely decided what to believe, but, rather, have been socially conditioned (indoctrinated) into their beliefs. They are unreflective thinkers. Their minds are products of social and personal forces they neither understand, control, nor concern themselves with. Their personal beliefs are often based in prejudices. Their thinking is largely comprised of stereotypes, caricatures, oversimplifications, sweeping generalizations, illusions, delusions, rationalizations, false dilemmas, and begged questions. Their motivations are often traceable to irrational fears and attachments, personal vanity and envy, intellectual arrogance and simple-mindedness. These constructs have become a part of their identity.” ~Richard Paul, The Thinker’s Guide to Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation

Here’s a list of books that I’ve read on critical thinking and education that I recommend to others:

1. How to Write a Paragraph: The Art of Substantive Writing (Thinker’s Guide Library), by Linda Elder, Richard Paul
2. A Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms and Concepts, by Linda Elder, Richard Paul
3. A Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools, by Richard Paul, Linda Elder
4. The Miniature Guide to The Art of Asking Essential Questions, by Linda Elder, Richard Paul
5. The Thinker’s Guide to The Art of Socratic Questioning, by Linda Elder, Richard Paul
6. The Miniature Guide to The Human Mind (Thinker’s Guide Library), by Linda Elder, Richard Paul
7. The Thinker’s Guide to Ethical Reasoning (Thinker’s Guide Library), by Richard Paul, Linda Elder
8. The Nature of Critical and Creative Thinking (Thinker’s Guide Library), by Richard Paul, Linda Elder
9. The Thinker’s Guide For Conscientious Citizens on How to Detect Media Bias & Propaganda, by Richard Paul, Linda Elder
10. The Thinker’s Guide to Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation
11. How to Improve Student Learning, by Richard Paul, Linda Elder
12. Logically Fallacious, the Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies, by Bo Bennett, PhD
13. Weapons of Mass Instruction, by John Taylor Gatto
14. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto
15. The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy Sayers

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