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Join the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online


The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online


Fostering fairminded critical societies
where intelligent people pursue intelligent conversations
and learn the skills of critical thinking.


30-Day Free Trial Available!



Institutional, Department, and Classroom Memberships Available!
Special memberships are available for schools, colleges, universities, and other organizations! A two-week complimentary trial is available. For details, visit the Community Online registration page and click the "More Membership Options" button.

Questions? Email cct@criticalthinking.org. 

About the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online . . .

The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking are pleased to invite you the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online. This interactive learning and communications platform provides subscribers a place to develop together as reasoners through a multitude of avenues, including:

  • A self-paced Academy , where you will find dozens of interactive learning activities for you (and your students); these can be completed, saved, and shared with others and in class.
  • The world's largest online critical thinking Library, containing Thinker's Guides, articles, books, and countless hours of video.
  • Study Groups – join one, or create your own!
  • "ConneCT " – the site's social media component, where you can publish your thoughts, share completed activities, and discuss with others.
  • "The Newsroom" – comment on articles dealing with some aspect or application of critical thinking, and rate how well each article adheres to the Intellectual Standards.
  • A Critical Thinking Blog with entries by Dr. Linda Elder, international expert on critical thinking, and specimens from the archives of Dr. Richard Paul, founder of the modern critical thinking movement.  
  • Exclusive Open Q&A Sessions with our Fellows, in which members can ask about specific components or applications of critical thinking. 
  • Guided Study Groups, in which our experts help you develop your critical thinking through live meetings and carefully-designed assignments.

No internet trolls. No empty gossip. Just learning, discussing ideas, and striving toward the most fairminded critical community that humanity is capable of.


30-Day Free Trial Available!
 

Who Is This For?

  • Educators, Administrators and their students.
  • Independent scholars.
  • Professionals.
  • Anyone looking to learn the tools of ethical critical thinking and how to apply them to everyday work, study, and life, as well as to the major problems facing human beings and our planet today.



Please do not pass this message by.

CRITICAL THINKING IS AT RISK.

Here are some of the big reasons why:

  1. Many people believe that critical thinking should be free and that scholars qualified to teach critical thinking should do so for free. Accordingly, they do not think they should have to pay for critical thinking textbooks, courses, or other resources when there is "so much free material online" - despite how erroneous that material may be.
  2. There are many misguided academicians, and some outright charlatans, pushing forth and capitalizing on a pseudo-, partial, or otherwise impoverished concept of critical thinking.
  3. Little to no funding is designated for critical thinking professional development in schools, colleges, or universities, despite the lip service widely given to critical thinking (as is frequently found in mission statements).
  4. Most people, including faculty, think they already know what critical thinking is, despite how few have studied it to any significant degree, and despite how few can articulate a coherent, accurate, and sufficiently deep explanation of it.
  5. People rarely exhibit the necessary level of discipline to study and use critical thinking for reaching higher levels of self-actualization. In part, this is due to wasting intellectual and emotional energy on fruitless electronic entertainment designed to be addictive and profitable rather than educational and uplifting.
  6. On the whole, fairminded critical thinking is neither understood, fostered, nor valued in educational institutions or societies.
  7. People are increasingly able to cluster themselves with others of like mind through alluring internet platforms that enable them to validate one another's thinking - even when their reasoning is nonsensical, lopsided, prejudiced, or even dangerous.
  8. Critical thinking does not yet hold an independent place in academia. Instead, "critical thinking" is continually being "defined" and redefined according to any academic area or instructor that, claiming (frequently unsupported) expertise, steps forward to teach it.

As you see, increasingly powerful trends against the teaching, learning, and practice of critical thinking entail extraordinary challenges to our mission. To continue our work, we must now rely upon your financial support. If critical thinking matters to you, please click here to contribute what you can today.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CONTINUE OUR WORK.

Thank you for your support of ethical critical thinking.