Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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