What is the relationship between critical thinking and the courage to be independent?

Must use a minimum of 5 sources and 3 of those sources must come from: Nation of wimps article https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200411/nation-wimps

David foster Wallace Speech
http://www.metastatic.org/text/This%20is%20Water.pdf

Gatto Speech
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt

Must be a minimum of 1250 words and no fallacies.