Is Texas discouraging critical thinking in classrooms? | Opinion
Schools should encourage critical thinking in their students. Texas needs more independent thinkers, our columnist argues.It may seem that the furor over teaching controversial material has died down but, as the. We will put a stop to this nonsense in the upcoming legislative session. Schools must get back to fundamentals and stop pushing ‘woke’ agendas.”
Those who do not ask such questions before participating in civic discourse, before offering a lesson in a public school or before writing new laws about education, are blind to the larger contexts that shape history, that shape opinions; moreover, they want to pass such blindness on to the next generation, and the next, and so on.
But shall I also teach “Undemocratic Democracy” by Jamelle Bouie — a provocative essay that challenges the idea that all people living in the U.S. have always been equally protected by foundational ideals regulating, among other things, who has been allowed to speak freely and who has not? But wait: It now turns out that Bouie’s essay cannot be taught alongside Milton’s; Bouie’s work is part of the “1619 Project”; an essay on whether speech has been free to all in America is now banned in Texas. Has the state not banned teachers’ ability to establish contexts, to make issues relevant?
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