Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. . . . the converse was … - Jane Smiley

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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

Jane Smiley

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. . . . the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

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