ARE YOU A CRITCAL THINKER

    A wise Frenchman, Anatole France, once said, "An Education isn't how much you've committed to memory, or even how much you know;  its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."  Anatole France was a successful French Novelist, Poet, and Journalist who lived from 1844-1924. 
    Mark Scott, who was a successful Talk Radio Host in Detroit 25 years ago, used to talk, all the time about being able to "discriminate crucial differences". 
    In the 'Serenity Prayer' which is used by Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and many of the 12-step programs that exist to help substance abusers, and those with addiction, we read about the "wisdom to know the difference between those things which we can change, and those things which we are powerless to change.
    It looks like it is very important to be able to discern when we don't know something;  not living in fantasy or deluding ourselves to the effect that we do know. 
    It is tragic that one of the flaws of humanity is that, for the most part humanity doesn't want to face its shortcomings;  they don't want to know, that they don't know.
   It is much safer to face reality, and to square up to the fact that we don't know something, if indeed we don't.  If we face the reality that we don't know, then maybe we can learn it   Otherwise, we will never get out of the darkness of thinking we know something when we don't.  This can have a tragic consequence for time and Eternity.