Thinking like a Citizen
Who do we think like: a student, a parent, an economist, or a philosopher? You may think that you don’t think “like” anyone, but just think, but it is not quite that simple. Thinking is something like and yet different than breathing. Breathing inhales and exhales the air in which we live. Thinking inhales and exhales the language(s) in which we participate. Right now we are thinking in English. How we participate in this language largely determines and is determined by how we think. Thinking like a citizen is to participate in a language in one way rather than another—as a citizen. So what is that like?
