If an individual can’t think critically he really isn’t educated.

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Source: Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960)

About this quote

In Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960), King uses a focused ethical claim to examine education, with attention to individual, think, critically. The practical center is the relationship between self awareness and really and educated, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.

When to use it

  • A community organizer builds a meeting around individual before participants choose one measurable action related to education.
  • A teacher pairs the passage from Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960) with a primary-source exercise about self awareness and public responsibility.
  • A team leader uses the tension between think and educated to discuss conduct under pressure.