1. Against School
   How public education cripples our kids, and why
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2003
   An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
2. The Anatomy of Judgment
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   Tracing the emergence of science and the social institutions that govern it, The Anatomy of Judgment is an odyssey into what human thinking or judgment mean.
3. Breaking the Spell of Stupid Opinions
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2006
   When someone is outside the hold of a stupid opinion, its inanity is so apparent that one wonders how it could ever be held by anyone. But when people are caught believing something that isn't reality-based, most believe it far more rigidly than they believe facts.
   
4. How to combat boredom and formalistic thought
   Resource Type: Article
   
5. Randy Park, Author and Speaker -- "Thinking for Results"
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
6. The Phenomenology of Mind
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1807
   The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
7. Sequential Problem Solving
   The Project Gutenberg Book
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   
8. Stupid Opinion #1: All Opinions are Equal
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2006
   People say, "Don't be judgmental" - as if we shouldn't evaluate behaviour, from amazingly loving to atrocious. Many intone, "No one has the right to judge opinions" - as if racist opinions, say, had the same validity as anti-racist opinions.
   

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1. Improbable Research