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Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. ✨ bell hooks (2013). Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, p.13, Routledge
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Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. ✨ bell hooks (2013). Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, p.13, Routledge

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