Hinge Mind (Thinking about Thinking)

Dear Colleagues,

Provoke: to call forth. Prompt: to stimulate, a
stimulus package : takes a pillage to raise
the dead.

There is an art-making that begins with pore-seeking
(lifting the shame covers, finding the loophole, refusing
to guard the secrets), that uncovers a plenitude of
material hidden from conventional eyes (ready-mades
are everywhere), and that  points toward a kind of mind
able to work  with that revealed complexity, one called,
in these last cases, the hinge-mind: the translator mind. 
(Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World)

Can you make heads & tails out of this?
Are you a hinge mind?  Unhinged?
Translator?

"Critical thinking is,  in short, self-directed, self-disciplined,
self-monitored and self-corrective thinking. It requires
rigorous standards of excellence and mindful command
of their uses. It entails effective communication and
problem-solving abilities and commitment to
overcome or native egocentricism and sociocentrism"
                                Thinkers Guide Library booklet. .
                     A Power Point rubric-assessing Delight.

Would you vote for this definition?
Does it represent your understanding
of what What We  Talk About when we
Talk About Critical Thinking as direct or
by product of our major, minor, and
general education program?

How does it sound to you?
(To me: the sound of one hand)

As good a topic as any to chase  across the
curriculum--put into sustained play and
consideration:  for our practice. Heart of
the heart of the country.

(The whole booklet reminds me of Poe's hoax, his
essay, "The Philosophy of Composition." where he
gives  excruciating step-by-step rational analysis
of the making of  "The Raven"--as if that's how it
happened and most took him at his word.)