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The thinker hardest to fool, and easiest to fool, is yourself
We teach children to spot other people's tricks. The harder, later lesson is that the person working hardest to fool you is usually you.
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Hold on to this term
Short notes on raising critical thinkers — each one built around a single line from our curriculum. Also our monthly letter home.
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Seeing is no longer believing — and every history has an author
Our children will grow up unable to trust their own eyes on a screen. The older skill that saves them is to ask, of any image or account: who made this, and what did they leave out?
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Real listening is the start of real thinking
We reward the child who answers fastest and talks most. But thinking starts earlier and quieter — in the willingness to actually receive what someone else is saying.
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The summit question is your own: find a problem worth thinking hard about, all year, with every tool you have
The rarest skill isn't answering a hard question — it's finding one worth a whole year, and being brave enough not to already know the answer.
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Every story looks different through someone else's eyes
A different account is rarely a lie — usually just a different place to stand. The skill a child uses before judging, not instead of it.
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Every "I think" is stronger with a "because"
"I think" plants a flag — anyone can. "Because" is the small plank that turns an opinion into a thought a person can actually cross to.
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A good question is just as special as a good answer
We praise the child with the answer. But the question is the rarer thing — and the surer sign that a child is thinking for themselves.
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