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*What is needed are good role models of moral and ethical leaders
 
*What is needed are good role models of moral and ethical leaders
 
What your world and the nation needs—your social culture needs—are moral, ethical and social leaders, who are also good models, good role models for those with lesser capability.  It is essential to the evolution of a society that leadership evinces those qualities.  Critical thinking can be a topic that even national leaders can use in an educational means.  We hold in less regard those pompous leaders who hold themselves above the ordinary individuals, that they are not capable or their roles are not sufficient to become role models or educators of their nation of people.  I know I have taken your question quite afar, but we wish you to seek a balanced thoughtfulness about critical thinking.  Those individuals who are critical thinkers strive and seek those who are also of their kind, and they are in some regards, quite lonely in this regard.  There is, however, a very broad role for them, where their loneliness would be assuaged by providing educational leadership to those without the quality of critical thinking.  I am not speculating, but projecting into the future where this will actually happen, and it could happen as early as decades, rather than centuries.  Surely, this must come forward in the next fifty years for your nations to evolve to the level where thoughtful and critical thinking is admired, appreciated and rewarded.
 
What your world and the nation needs—your social culture needs—are moral, ethical and social leaders, who are also good models, good role models for those with lesser capability.  It is essential to the evolution of a society that leadership evinces those qualities.  Critical thinking can be a topic that even national leaders can use in an educational means.  We hold in less regard those pompous leaders who hold themselves above the ordinary individuals, that they are not capable or their roles are not sufficient to become role models or educators of their nation of people.  I know I have taken your question quite afar, but we wish you to seek a balanced thoughtfulness about critical thinking.  Those individuals who are critical thinkers strive and seek those who are also of their kind, and they are in some regards, quite lonely in this regard.  There is, however, a very broad role for them, where their loneliness would be assuaged by providing educational leadership to those without the quality of critical thinking.  I am not speculating, but projecting into the future where this will actually happen, and it could happen as early as decades, rather than centuries.  Surely, this must come forward in the next fifty years for your nations to evolve to the level where thoughtful and critical thinking is admired, appreciated and rewarded.
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*How to teach the art of critical thinking
 
*How to teach the art of critical thinking
 
MMc:  Thank you.  You have carried [us] quite far from what I was thinking.  My own thinking had to do with developing or educating the people in the design teams to become critical thinkers, so that they might take part in the design team process.  I understand that overall, not everybody is cut out to be a critical thinker as the intelligence quotients and the potential for growth and maturity is not necessarily there for everyone.  The question I should have asked is, can we teach the design team members, at least, the art of critical thinking?
 
MMc:  Thank you.  You have carried [us] quite far from what I was thinking.  My own thinking had to do with developing or educating the people in the design teams to become critical thinkers, so that they might take part in the design team process.  I understand that overall, not everybody is cut out to be a critical thinker as the intelligence quotients and the potential for growth and maturity is not necessarily there for everyone.  The question I should have asked is, can we teach the design team members, at least, the art of critical thinking?
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MONJORONSON:  Would you repeat that claim again, please?
 
MONJORONSON:  Would you repeat that claim again, please?
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*Reasons and evidence why this work on sustainability is valid
 
*Reasons and evidence why this work on sustainability is valid

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