I know that we often need to put “critical thinking”--as a learning outcome--in some foyer or anteroom of our course syllabus for all good reasons, and I also love these peripheral definitional strands toward that je ne sais quoi of the thing too… :“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” --Emerson ... (and) ...“Time changes everything except that something within us which is always surprised by change.” --Thomas Hardy ..."I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." -- Feynman“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.” --Toni Morrison