“It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.” PeopleHardMightHappensTodaySocialSecurityBenefitsCriticalSocial SecurityReductionMedicareBack To Work Author:Fred Upton
“I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.” MenWorldHas BeensImportantSpiritSocialForeverHe ManCapableCriticalConvincedAccomplishedRitualPreservationBarbarismSocial SystemsInquiringSilencingCritical Spirit Book:It Can't Happen Here Source: It Can't Happen Here
“It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.” MenWorldImportantSeemsValuesSocialPowerfulNumbersTasksSeekingCriticalPrioritiesFactorsSecureAgentsCivilizedOur WorldDestroyingGuidelinesCivilized SocietyFrame Of ReferenceSocial Values Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry
“[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.” ActionSocialPrinciplesRelationDetermineCriticalStatementsTransformedDependenceFrozenTheoreticalSocial ScienceRegularitySocial Action Author:Jurgen Habermas
“After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need for the competition of ideas or critical thinking. So the curriculum will be up to the school to determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will welcome this opportunity to spend a large portion of our income on education and choose an ideology at the same time.” ThinkingNeedsIdeasSchoolCertainValuesOpportunitySocialGrowingCompetitionDetermineCriticalIncomeWelcomeIdeologyPortionsPercentagesCritical ThinkingCurriculumPublic EducationPrivatizationSocial Values Author:David A. Strauss
“It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.” ChildrenPlaySchoolSocialEnvironmentMastersSkillsWarmCriticalAttractiveFormalSpend TimeSchoolingSocial Skills Author:Michael Gove
“Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.” WellsLooksArtDoneEyeSocialCriticalArchitectureManifestationClairvoyant Author:Louis Sullivan
“Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.” IfsMenNeedsSchoolPoliticalSocialEducationAttitudeDemocracyShapesCapableCriticalDoctrine Author:Albert Einstein
“The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud. Marx showed the moving powers and the conflicts in the social-historical process. Freud aimed at the critical uncovering of the inner conflicts. Both worked for the liberation of man, even though Marx's concept was more comprehensive and less time-bound than Freud's.” MenTwoMovingSocialProcessTheoryConflictConceptsHistoricalBoundsCriticalLiberationReachingPhasesComprehensiveInner ConflictUncoveringCritical Theory Book:The art of being Source: The art of being
“Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.” WantChildrenPlaySocialParentDifferencesRolesIdentitySkillsAreasFunctionCriticalClose FriendsSocial SkillsClose Friendship Author:Zick Rubin