The Thinker may be the best known sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1849−1917). Commissioned in 1880 as part of a group representing Dante's Divine Comedy, Rodin called him "Poet" or "Dante", but not "Thinker".

Thinker is depicted as a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle. Although sitting, the posture and muscle tension clearly show the effort begin used in the struggle. The sculpture is universally associated with philosophy and, most of all, thinking.

In 1961, the U.S. Educational Policies Commission defined education, in part, by saying, "education is the power to think clearly". Today, education is defined with complex verbiage and buzz words and educators pontificate about how (and even why) technology should be integrated into the classroom. None of it says as much as that simple statement!

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