Thursday, June 30, 2011

Take Critical Thinking, for example

 
 Take Critical Thinking for Example
    (not to be collapsed, conflated or
     confused with Creative Thinking)

Sacred cow squat-tanked in the market
place  chewing cud and who’s gonna mess
with it?.
 
      Academic Bumper Sticker
         “I’d rather ought to be
            Critical Thinking
          Thinking Critically
 
I guess I’m the most critical  thinker
around seen it’s all I do. Criticize.. 
                Critical .
 
But who’s to say as the students say who’s
the top critical thinker on campus like basket
ball or ping-pong, martial artistry: belts of
different colors some bettern others: some
thing to get better & good at by practice
spotting hidden assumptions, controlling meta-
force, side-bar to bias & belief, prejudice &
conviction  so as to love the enemy, turn cheeks
and get down to the fundamental devilish
                either/or
generating the leaves, twigs, limbs, branches
where all the hurry-scurry is always going on.
 
All through boarding school and college and
grad school, too, I bet I was practicing “Critical
Thinking” like anything, unawares—it having not
been invented yet, like A.D.D. (attention deficient
disease) and RLS (Restless Legs Syndrome), SHS
(Second Hand Smoke) all over permeate, enviorn-
mentally suffusing but not yet  discovered & labeled
as it is these days.  
 
Uncalled for then.
Now: called & called for.

xxxooo, Presbyter  

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