CRITICAL THINKING

Critical thinkers tend to:

1. Search for reasons

It is not just complaining about the troubles, they find the reasons for what those things happened and the ways for solving them. They are not satisfied with what they see, they always look for more.

2. Use credible sources

Critical Thinkers find real sources for supporting their ideas (authors, knowledge authority), in order to have a better domain of the information for creating them.

3. Exhibit sensitivity to others' feeling and depth of knowledge

People who have "Critical Thinking" cooperate with the community all the time, they do not think just in an individual way, they think for helping other people.

AND ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM ...

I would like to share an abstract 

Abstract

Multicultural education is an approach to teaching and learning that is based on democratic values that affirm cultural pluralism within culturally diverse societies in an interdependent world. There are currently two viewpoints or perspectives of multicultural education in the United States, namely the assimilation or “melting-pot” perspective and the pluralism or “global” perspective. The assimilation perspective of multicultural education is that microcultures must give up their original culture and identities in order to blend in or become absorbed into the predominant Anglo-Western European culture. The global perspective is that microcultures can retain many of their traditions such as language, religion, and social customs while adopting many of the aspects of the predominant Anglo-Western culture. The global perspective

of multicultural education recognizes cultural pluralism as an ideal and healthy state in any productive society and promotes equity and respect among the existing cultural groups. This principle allows the global perspective of multicultural education to extend beyond equity pedagogy as the only way to counteract problems that have been created by the assimilation perspective. With the rapidly increasing interconnections among all nations, particularly now, as we face global issues related to the ecosystem, nuclear weapons, terrorism, human rights, and scarce national resources, institutions of higher education need to embrace the global perspective of multicultural education if we are going to remain models of democratic societies in a pluralistic world and stay academically competitive in relation to the rest of the world. The purpose

of this article is to explain the global perspective of multicultural education and how institutions of higher education can use it to remain models of academic excellence in pluralistic and democratic societies.

WHY MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IS MOREIMPORTANT IN HIGHER EDUCATION NOW THAN EVER: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Gloria M. Ameny-Dixon

Taken from: 

http://www.nationalforum.com/Electronic%20Journal%20Volumes/Ameny-Dixon,%20Gloria%20M.%20Why%20Multicultural%20Education%20is%20More%20Important%20in%20Higher%20Education%20Now%20than%20Ever.pdf

THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

The story follows three pigs sent out into the world by their mother. Each of them builds a house to protect them from the hardships of the world, but along comes a big bad wolf. One by one, the wolf blows each house down until he comes to the last pig's house, which was built on a strong foundation of brick. The wolf is unable to even scuff the brick house and attempts to sneak in through the chimney. The pigs are ready for his entrance, placing a pot of boiling water in the fireplace. When the wolf leaps into the chimney, he lands in the pot and the pigs make a stew out of him.

Taken from: http://www.mahalo.com/the-three-little-pigs/

I chose this Fairy Tale because as all of them,  it lets a moral lesson for life. In this case, the third pig who made a big effort and did not play for a long time like the others and he build the house made of bricks so, the wolf could not overthrow it. In real life, if you make a big effort, you will make your dreams come true, but just with discipline and perseverance.

RIDDLES

I always run, but never walk.

I have a bed, but I don't sleep.

I have a mouth, but I don't eat.

You hear my sound, 

You feel me when I move,

But see me you never will.

The more I dry, 

The wetter I get

What has to be broken before you can use it?