In every class and every subject, students will learn to ask and to answer these questions:

• From whose viewpoint are we seeing or reading or hearing? From what angle or perspective?

• How do we know when we know?  What’s the evidence, and how reliable is it?

• How are things, events, or people connected to each other?  What is the cause and what is the effect? How do they fit together?

• What’s new and what’s old? Have we run across this idea before?

• So what? Why does it matter? What does it all mean?

-Meier, Deborah, The Power of Their Ideas