Teacher fired for asking student to engage in critical thinking is ‘absolutely insane’
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- Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power discusses the firing of a teacher who questioned a student's claim that author J.K. Rowling was a transphobe and bigot.
A teacher was fired after his video went viral on X, where he gently challenged a student’s stance on whether Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is a transphobe and bigot.
“It’s absolutely insane, isn’t it the point of education is to teach the next generation how to think critically,” Ms Power told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“Hopefully, this teacher will receive a lot of support and go on to bigger and better things and will continue to educate people in some way.”
“He was so careful language when he was being asked about JK Rowling he was pointing out some pretty fair points.”
He committed the capital offence of teaching kids to THINK.
The worst of all atrocities. They could discover that the lessons were state sponsored TREACHERY
its getting too much:(
Yea..We can't have that now, can we!! 🙄
@@SaltySeaQueen-nn8wm Harrison Bergeron the dystopian film See a copy
@@pholdway5801good movie!. The guy who played Samwise on Lord of the Rings stars in it. Can't remember his name
He needs to sue the school for wrongful termination.
Yeah he broke the terms of employment--if for no other reason than penning a book on his work laptop, which of course is the school's property and went back to them when he was terminated. (He didn't even back up his work. 🤦♀️) So while he's great at philosophy and I love his method of speaking to his students and getting them to come up with their own answers, he lacks a lot of common sense and ingenuity. If I remember correctly, even in the beginning he was waiting for the ball to drop and said as much--which almost assuredly means he knew he was breaking at least one rule that his continued employment hinged on.
@@5Gburn Incorrect logic. The book would remain his intellectual property regardless and has no permanence so can inflict no harm. To delete it would be unjustifiable commercial assault. This man will now be projected into a much better life having established his integrity and intellect in the public sphere. Should deletion occur local or even remote access and imaging resolution would recover everything unless more focused deletion is employed which would infer deliberation and weaken the defendants case: his former employers. I hope he sues for a very large settlement and also suitably gets compensation from facilitators of his inflicted damage by Musk and others who placed into social media exposure and thus carry culpability.
What the fuck are you babbling about? I've had a work laptop with half a dozen employers over 20 years and nobody ever told me I couldn't use it to write a book
How many grams of CNN branded copiun are you snorting a day to be this delusional?
Terms of contract cannot have unconscionable clauses ; then the whole contract becomes void . But that's for the more advanced civilised countries I suppose.
Critical thinking and leftist ideology do not go together. Facts are like garlic to a vampire to them.
they removed him because they found out, HE IS AN ACTUAL TEACHER.
Mind Begs the Question:
▪︎Dehumanizing a group of people Rats is Fascist
▪︎Dehumanizing a group of people Human Animals is Not Fascist?
I have been working as a tutor for 30+ years including running my own tuition centre, I would employ this guy BECAUSE he will get good results. For a child to succeed in education they need to know how to think.
Mind Begs the Question:
- If a Govt/Corporates/College
- Censor,Criminalize protesting against
- Starvation,Death Camps,Gas Chambers/White Phosphorus,Dehumanization,Pogroms,Mass Graves,Ethnic Cleansing,etc
- Pro Democracy or Pro Nazi?
Yes. Not just another mouth piece of government narrative and sheepole
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeingsstupid bot
They fired him because he was actually teaching instead of brainwashing.
exactly brainless brainwashers only that keep to the PARTY LINE be good communist
This is disgraceful. An outstanding teacher gets fired. Disgusted.
Outstanding eh! Sounds like a woke dickhead who indoctrinates kids with propaganda. Well done the school authorities.
we don't know for certain if he's an outstanding teacher, but we can agree his firing for what he said is disgusting
And there’s a nationwide teacher shortage too.
@@TV-ob1if we don't know for certain that he was fired, either. The university may have declined to renew his contract. Doesn't make a difference for him, nor do we have to agree with the choice, but the university may have been within their rights to make that declination.
@@ericcarterofthehillpeople He teaches part-time at Emerson University, and he still has that job. He's been fired from his full-time high school position. He never explained exactly why, and the school cannot comment upon a personnel issue. Thinking critically about the situation, I believe I'll just withhold judgment, because I just don't have sufficient information.
They don't want students to learn critical thinking. That's the last thing they want. Totalitarianism doesn't work with critical thinkers.
Either does unfettered capitalism. Both require an uncritical population.
@@larryrubin1718 That's amazing, I didn't know anyone could get their head that far up their arse.
@@lennychorn147 I agree 100%!
@@larryrubin1718thank you commie
@@lennychorn147they are right, they said both. Democracy is just as much a lie as all those other failed systems.
He didn't even tell that kid he was wrong, he just wanted to know the source of his students' information. He's helping them work with information in a constructive way.
No way, that proves critical thinking is banned in schools.
Government interference.
Lmao, proves it? If you didn't already know that, you're Kate to the party. School isn't there for your children to grow into free thinking adults. Its purpose is to babysit while the current adult go to work and to train the next generation of the workforce to get used to the 5 day work week and follow orders. You only really go to school in University.
A teacher asked his student to THINK? 🤯
The teacher didn’t make a “remark”; the student made a “remark.”
The teacher asked his student to explain what he meant. That’s it! That’s what he did to get himself fired, folks. He asked his student to elaborate.
This world has lost its damned mind.
Critical thinking is extremely detrimental to the woke cult and it's indoctrination...
Coz punkkid thought he was challenged.
He just heard this things about Rowling but doesn’t know any specific detail.
He felt he was pushed back against the wall.
@@Amtcboy I doubt it was the kid, did you even watch that original dialoge to its end?
We are actually in a communist style state but most people haven't realized it yet.
You are implying assuming he has been dismissed because of this clip alone. Without knowing the real reason behind the decision and evidences, it’s impossible to tell if the decision is right or wrong.
Critical Thinking. Great teaching with the clip nonetheless.
Disgraceful. He didn't really voice his opinion. He asked questions of a student. He even said "thought experiment"
more importantly he stressed it was not "about what to think" but about "how to think" how to use your brain and your critial faculties...
I agree. Thanks for being here. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
Lol nice troll vegan
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams This lady is still alive?? 💀
Being vegan is a big threat towards the populations of bees, billions die for the food you need.
Vegans should feel ashamed.
A lot of life which lives in the ground has to be killed for the stuff you eats as well.
I would be so ashamed.
I buy a lot of meat directly from a friendly good farmer.
So mutch better ...
But the indoctrination probably has already taken over your brain by now so this will not reach you.
That teacher is great. Another school needs to hire him immediately. A great asset to any school.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.” Mark Twain
True words
learned this the hard way
Seriously, schools which fire teachers for teaching critical thinking should be defunded and shut down. Period.
The establishment want to create a generation of drones to exploit... this is a deliberate decision that appears sinister.
100%
The government wants sheep.
There's be no schools or teachers left.
Schools aren’t about teaching critical thinking. Schools are to prepare the poors to obey their masters and get them ready for a factory job
He should sue for unfair dismissal
I cannot stress this enough. How appalling is the education system.
@@LinA-it9vd since this is presumably considered publicly held information, we need to know the specific names of the people who were involved in his firing. they need to be held accountable for their authoritarian behavior
@@TV-ob1if exactly.
Elon will pay for it, he'll do it for anyone unfairly fired over disagreeing with woke crap
I would imagine that, if he could, he would. We're only getting one side of the story.
The kid came to his own conclusion after listening to what JK said instead of believing what he was told about JK
Legit. He heard about the outrage, and after checking for himself what the outrage is about realized that it's bullshit.
@@pvshka and the teacher was fired for teaching a kid to " think " imagine that
Hearsay is one hell of a drug. Don't do drugs, kids.
The teacher never gave a personal opinion or told the student his opinion was wrong!!! There are a lot of people who have opinions but aren’t able to explain how they’ve come to that conclusion. That’s all the teacher is trying to teach. Wrongful termination.
well put
He got sacked because he was teaching a student how to think. He is not allowed to teach his students how to think, he is only allowed to indoctrinate them. That is why we are in the sad state of affairs that we have.
This is so sad. What is the point of education if students aren’t allowed to challenge opinions?
Absolutely correct. We no longer have an education system.
Boom nailed it 🎉😮
That's called manipulation, not teaching.
Oh please. Don't pretend that you or anyone else will do anything more than sit on your ass and watch TV until the food and / or toilet paper runs out and you decide to take your own life.
Educated parents should ask whoever fired him to resign, and pull all support from the school
Who do you think raised these little cherubs of insanity... :)
We have no idea why he was fired, it was 4 months after this video was released. I will use my critical thinking and not jump to conclusions until I have the facts which he and the school aren't making public which feels dodgy
@@twiggy99 good point. But what must certainly be considered is that waiting a few months and then finding some reason to fire someone that appears to have nothing to do with the "real" reason is a common tactic. While I, as an educator, earnestly and honestly did my job, I know I made mistakes. Mistakes that, while not really that egregious, could easily be elevated to be so if there were those looking to dismiss me. (Like being very ill with the real flu and not calling in sick until noon, instead of 7:55 am because one was asleep.)
@@synthiamcbride7194 does it feel retaliatory in nature? Absolutely, but with the limited facts we have. The fact he hasn't given the reasons for the sacking leaves a lot more questions than answers for me. If I was wrongfully sacked and I had a public platform like he does I'd make sure the public knows and file a lawsuit. I'm not sure of the rules there but in the UK to sack someone the companies must have the case water tight otherwise you will be in an employment tribunal before your next breath.
Just look a Bluehaird woman
Agree with others - sue for wrongful dismissal. The man is a fabulous teacher. Need more of him.
As a former high school social studies teacher, this is exactly why I left. Teachers are not allowed to help students learn to think for themselves lest they be cancelled. I hope he gets an even better offer, he didn’t deserve to be let go. Their loss and society’s loss.
I remember you! I had a huge crush on you lol 😂
Oh nooo!! A student being forced to think!?!?!?!?!? How disgraceful!
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings Both of them want the cleansing of the other if we're talking militant groups.
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeingswe found the bot boys
The government wants mindless minimum wage slaves, not thinking workers
Critical thinking is sooo uncomfortable, and therefore abusive. 😵💫 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.” Isiah 5:20
How dare he teach critical thinking contrary to the Ministry of Truth
Helldiver.....is that you?
J.K.Rowling, who I don't even consider that great of an author, was definitely not on my bingo card for being the Establishment's target for their "Two Minutes' Hate"...
Ah 1984 huh well the world has certainly reflecting that
@@fyrchmyrddin1937 This student is involved in setting up this outstanding teacher. i.e., why do we have a direct camera shot at the teacher and none of the "student"? A full investigation as to who, what, when, where and why needs to be undertaken and charges need to brought. This guy is a treasure and should retain counsel to get to the bottom of this and press charges. Jail time is warranted for attempting to ruin this man's life.
@@mattrowan2680 I don't know if the teacher is using some sort of 'telepresence' like Skype or Zoom.
He was fired and didn't know why; he *suspects* it was because Elon retweeted him but the fact is the Establishment runs most of our societal systems, and they easily get away with stuff like this.
The CDC took direction from AFT Union boss Randi Weingarten to keep the COVID lockdown going. Yet she's not facing charges, nor is mini-Mengele Fauci.
He's not a DEI/CRT teacher. He's actually teaching and wants student to think for themselves with information they need to do so
The teacher applying the Socratic method to the T and he got fired. Rest in Peace education...
Time to sue. This is illegal and unconstitutional.
Nah, just join Patrick Bet David or Elon Musk team
It is illegal. It is unfair dismissal. But what do you when the judge and the jury are so ideologically captured they won't see any issue with this?
100% illegal. With the new rules of a NDA no longer being legal also even their idea that he may say something still doesn't matter.
Not from what I've heard, it's perfectly legal, since most states there have people hired at will, which means they can get fired for no reason.
@@anubis9151depends on many factors.
Hes been sacked for being calm, rational and logical.
He's not very good at critical thinking though. I watched one of his videos - after he got exposure he started a CZcams channel - and he had serious listening comprehension issues, it was weird and cringey for someone who teaches "critical thinking". So who knows what was going on at the school behind the scenes.
Exactly the kind of teacher we need. 😢 Sad. I hope he sues. Best wishes to him.
Warren is an exceptional man and an oustanding teacher. I am sure this madness will turn out to destroy the school and promote this young man beyond his dreams. He deserves it. I don't remember ever having such a good teacher in all my years at school!
The teacher deserves a raise not getting fired. Disgusting.
this is exacly the kind of teaching and teachers we need.
And if it turns out he has committed a crime or otherwise violated his contract, but not told us about it in his video statement?
He hasn't presented a letter showing it was a termination without a reason given. We need more information. We need to show our own critical thinking and not jump to emotional and irrational conclusions. 💪🏻
I agree. Thanks for being here. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings.
Vegan copy paste troll
teacher teaching and not making kids dumber for a lifelong debt? how dare you !?!
Hopefully quality schools are offering him employment with a large increase in pay. Kudos to this excellent teacher!!!
For real though. I feel for the students who lost him. He deserves a great teaching job
i thought this was the onion💀💀
Its obvious why he was sacked, critical thinking is the very _last_ thing these people want taught.
Authoritarianism remains.
Is it obvious?
We have no idea why he was terminated, from the information given.
He hasn't been able to point to any correspondence showing he was unjustly terminated. For all we know, he violated his contract or the law, and the termination was justified. We just can't say either way, at the moment.
Practise your own critical thinking. 😊
@@AndrooUK And you should probably be looking at the most likely explanation rather than engaging in far-fetched wishful thinking. 😊
just as insane when people weer asked to do their research into vaccines and into the history or Israel or the US or Brtish governments and their ownerships in companies that were used to by politicians. You didn't want critcal thinking then did you @sky news Australia
@@kerravon4159how exactly can you measure the likelihood of anything in this situation when there is zero information to go off? All we know is he was fired, and there’s a lot of possible explanations as to why. We can’t say which one is more likely because we don’t know what happened. You are automatically applying your own judgement to something, that’s not how you think critically, there is nothing to evaluate yet.
Professor Warren Smith did nothing wrong. He was dismissed wrongly. Hope Professor Warren Smith sues the school for everything they have
I hope Elon hires the best lawyers in the world so the names of these +roomers are made public and shamed
The school and government will happily pay him if it stops him teaching others to think. The money will be from others and not make a dent in what the system has while letting more people learn to think would be a danger to their goal of control and destruction of the system so a new horrible one can be forced on us. WEF globlist agenda is very close to being compelte thanks to AI and worldwide economical collapse.
Do we know that?
Did he show a letter/email of his termination, and that it was illegal or violated his employment contract?
At the moment, I haven't observed sufficient evidence in this video to know why he was terminated from his position, if he even was (it's not like I've checked the staff directory for the institution where I don't know where he works).
We must use our own critical thinking, and analyse the information available. The information I've seen is insufficient to come to a reasoned conclusion, beyond an emotional and irrational first reaction (which we have to move beyond, and then decide on what to do or say next).
His name is W. Smith? How apt, since he looks a bit like Winston Smith as portrayed by John Hurt in '1984' (1984).
I agree. ✅I hope Elon Musk helps him out. Thanks for being here. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
A population that can think is the biggest threat for a government. They don’t want you to do that
It's unreal how fast Schools will Fire a Teacher they don't want but the Sh*tty Teachers get to stay forever.
He lost his job for speaking the truth?
This is only the beginning. The attack on truth will escalate.
It's not even the fact that it's the truth- it's the fact that he wanted to have an honest discussion in good faith and was let go
@@Jesus_is_Lord_316 which is why we need to find out the people who were involved in his firing
Not that strange really. Speaking the truth is mostly very disruptive to people that live in fantasy,. Which is everyone :)
Not even that. He didn't even say what he thought was right or wrong; he asked questions to get the student to think critically and come to his own conclusion. Critical thinking is a threat to the Left.
The school doesn’t want the kids to think critically they want kids to listen and obey
You got it. Critical thinking is dangerous to the woke cult and it's indoctrination tactics.
I doubt it, it must be for a different reason, I just can’t see the logic in discouraging critical thinking.
@@mpalmer22- so that they’ll listen and obey…
@@mpalmer22exactly, which is why this situation is not okay
@@mpalmer22 The same logic as to remove analogue clocks from schools "because the kids don't know how to read the time on them" is the argument, what basically means that they failed to teach the children how to read them and now willingly make sure they will never learn it.
Looks like he interfered with the programming. Independent rational thought is not the goal anymore, it's the enemy.
We all know why people won't want kids having critical thinking and would prefer them to have the current status quo of massive over reaction and knee jerk thoughts and insults
the kid should stand up FOR the teacher
The kids are probably the one
I agree! ✅I hope Elon Musk helps him out. Thanks for being here. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams😂..we need teachers like him..very true.Vegan or not.
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcamsis the teacher vegan? I knew he was awesome, but not THAT awesome😊❤🌱 compassion and critical thinking all in one, as it should be
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams you people are pathetic. If he was a proud meat lover who loved his good steaks you would not be defending his human rights.
He’s brilliant. Our children all deserve teachers like Warren. Bless him.
Unbelievable
Schools are prob falling over themselves to get this guy on faculty. Smart, calm, male. Cmon
No idea how 'male' is relevant..
@@akashajones6079 boys grow up with far fewer gender role models in school than girls do. Fewer men go into education at the primary and secondary level. That would be different if education and women had gotten the respect and pay they deserve.
Actually I was quite impressed that the student changed his mind when asked to review his statement.
That’s why they had to get rid of him.
He should sue for wrongful termination of employment.
What is going on in this world
This video is kind of leading :/ None of us can know exactly what happened at the school, but it’s clear that the reason he was fired was never actually officially stated. A video of him talking about a controversial topic to a student got viral online, and he was fired afterwards. But correlation isn’t causation- is that not what we were taught about critical thinking in maths and science class. Maybe they fired him because the school didn’t want him to discuss politically charged, living people in the classroom. Maybe there was something else behind the scenes we don’t know about. Instead, this video is framed in a way to push viewers to do the opposite of critical thinking: make assumptions. Assume that he was fired for promoting “rationale, critical thought” and therefore was unfairly fired to incite outrage.
This video also automatically wants the viewers to assume J.K. Rowling is not a transphobe/TERF, much in the same way the teacher pointed out the student’s comment wants us to assume Rowling is one. This is supported by the commentator’s remarks that “those aren’t fair labels for her” without substantiating evidence. Can we really assume this without assessing THAT claim critically? While the student in the video did not have explanation why he thought Rowling was transphobic, it’s because he does not seem to know much about Radical Feminism. He lacked the necessary information and context to substantiate his claim, only repeating rhetoric seen online. The teacher, perhaps due to his own similar lack of knowledge on this topic, did not identify this as the main flaw in the student’s arguments.
But why the hypocrisy? We’re defending a teacher for supposedly doing a good job “promoting critical thinking”, particularly for pointing out the student made a loaded claim. And then this video conveniently proceeds to commit the exact same logical blunder, creating an argument based off of a loaded claim. They just say “she’s not a transphobe!” without acknowledging the actual evidence or well-informed arguments against her, and want us to run with that. To ultimately conclude “this firing was unfair.” After all, no school would actually fire a teacher doing a good job teaching critical thinking. So, this video seems to imply, it must be related to J.K. Rowling and how she is unfairly treated. What is the purpose behind this?
The Sky News audience is a right wing circle jerk. They will not understand your comment because of their lack of critical thinking skills
So sad. The teacher was basically using the old school Aristotle method of inviting you to examine your own thinking by questionning you. It doesnt tell you what to think, it helps you understand issues in your arguments and helps you arrive to better logical conclusion on your own. This is a pillar of Western Thought and civilisation. It breaks my heart that this is a fireable offense in school today.
I agree. ✅I hope Elon Musk helps out this young teacher by finding him a new job. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcamsoh did you know that plants also are considered alive and sentient, just in a different form than humans and animals? So by being vegan, you also as well are killing a living thing, which is your moral justification to not eat meat yes? Unless you believe in eating living things, just not certain living things to push a false narrative that youre on a pedestal of being morally right.
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams What a fascinating shill for your channel... has nearly nothing to do with the topic of critical thinking and everything to do with driving people to your own channel. Then again, you exhibit a profound failure in presenting unfounded opinions as truth and ignoring or deflecting the preponderant presence of verifiable facts to the contrary... so why should I expect more?
Socrates
@@xXevilsmilesXx ah yes i mixed up my old Greeks
Unfair dismissal. Court case should follow. Reinstate him.
And sack the person that dismissed him!
They are right, this man shouldn’t be teaching children, he should be minister of education ;)
He seems upset. I don’t think he realizes the doors that this publicity is going to open for him.
Insane that he got sacked for thinking critically..................absolute madness
Our rulers do not want citizens who can think critically.
Didn't Socrates get the death penalty for the same sort of thing?
Correct. Think of it like this: if you use logic, science, critical thinking, and solid analyses to come to a conclusion which hundreds of powerful people disagree with... YER DUNZOH, SUNZOH! LOL. You basically signed your own d34th cert. You are NOT PERMITTED to go against the status quo. If you're in a building with one-thousand flat-Earthers, you do NOT speak of spherical objects... EVER.
Yes he was a famed transphobe....just kidding
@@Andy-Bodhi No need to kid. Toyboys were a normal part of life amongst the Athenian male aristocracy. Socrates was set up by an aristocrat named Critias because he spent too much time with Critias' favourite toyboy. Whether the relationship was physical is not known. We do know that both the older and younger guys were pupils of Socrates.
@@sav7568 That's homosexuality, which has nothing to do with the new "gender identity" malarkey. Many activists these days conflate sexual orientation with "gender identity" for political reasons, but they are very different subjects.
@omp199 they also conflate lgbt and woke all the time... even though you can be lgbt without supporting propaganda and censorship.
Bro got the "thought crime"
Also isn't that the prime reason for a school is to learn critical? Thinking how to do stuff too like math, but also how to critically. Think and understand something rather than just face value.
Someone needs to employ this guy straight away..hes a true light and I hope he'll be fine!
Someone needs to employ this guy straight away..
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And this will right the wrong?
I'm amazed this guy wasn't already hired by a bunch of other schools. He seems like he's an amazing teacher.
@@sander_bouwhuis The majority of schools don't want kids to learn how think - it's not on their covert agenda.
I agree. ✅I hope Elon Musk helps him out. Thanks for being here. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams Vegan teacher? What do you mean by that? Do you mean he is a vegan? If so, what does that have to do with teaching kids critical thinking?
Crurical thinking threatens cult thinking, and threatens communism
I’ll be reporting this comment to the Thought Police for treason
Dawwww, does the lady hobbit calling for pro Palestinians speech to be illegal in the US wanna cry about censorship now?
Rich complaining about communists and free speech given the history of McCarthyism and modern red baiting. You're really dead set on helping democrats fear monger trump as a Russian this election. Huh?
American communists have a much better track record on free speech than American capitalists. Ie American corporate communist billionaires whose wealth comes from state contracts.
lmao... god help us all
That’s why 2+2 has to equal 5.
Let’s ask the real question now:
What’s the name of the person who made the decision to fire him? The person who said “yes, let’s do that”.
We need to know this.
I fully support him. I teach students HOW to think. The "I've heard" section of the student's perspective is pathetic.
Sad.
When he said “the whole point is to learn how to think not what to think” he was put in the crosshairs.
I agree! ✅I hope Elon Musk helps him out. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
Right
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams I used to eat a balanced diet of meat and vegetables. I’ve changed since watching your videos. I now eat double the amount of meat to offset your diet.
"Can you give me an example?" in a soft, quiet tone is considered polarizing, I guess.
because those kids think they are really got at the words bigot and transphobic
I think, unfortunately, him being fired was predictable.
Firing this teacher is disgraceful at the very least, and it is probably illegal!😡
My best teachers were the ones who didn’t talk AT us but rather asked us how we came to our conclusions.
The Socratic method.
@@patmanchester8045 Exactly
Real critical thinking skills are opposed by The Establishment authorities.... They want to tell you what to believe, not to have you make up your own mind using good rationalization and critical thinking skills.
I saw that video, he was very good questioning a person to think, a skill nearly everyone under 40 doesn't have.
I’m getting closer to thinking homeschooling is the way I should go with my youngest. We are now firing great teachers for letting children think. He deserves more $ than what teachers get anyway.
Homeschool is the only option.
@@claudialupper Homeschooling should be outlawed, worst thing imaginable. Poor kids, socialisation is the other side of the coin, learning to navigate friendships & generally get on with other kids be they nice or otherwise as well as exposure to a multitude of attitudes & ideas like them or not outside the home bubble.
I wish everyday I had never sent my kids to a school
@@creditelectric That's bullshit. I find that persons who were home-schooled tend to be better conversationalists and more pleasant to be around than those who were sent to day-prisons/schools. It's one thing to be socialized, it's another thing to be badly socialized by exposure to a toxic environment, and that's what going to school will get you. Most modern schools are also an extremely bad place to go if you want to see wide-ranging opinions and new ideas explored with nuance and an open mind. You can do a lot better in the age of the internet.
@@eyeofbraille4659 Your first two words, is that your reaction to everything that you can't handle, is that a product of home schooling? The world is a diverse place, good & bad & children must learn to differentiate & recognise this, are the words diverse or diversity something that you find confronting?
It is a big wide place everyone must adapt to & schools are part of it be it rough or elite, the high fee schools can & do turn out disappointing people. At end of the day it is interpersonal skills & reasonable academic achievement that is recognised after examination that makes a difference, the garbage in garbage out internet sites full of confirmation bias is not a teacher.
So if a teacher educates a student how to think, he would get the sack? 🤔 can't say I'm surprised
The VERY last thing universities (and corporations) desire are groups of self-confident, calm, rational, critical thinkers. What they want are "turnkey $lav3$". And believe me, those FAR outnumber the intelligent thinkers. If you're intelligent, YOU ARE IN DANGER. Trust me.
When I was in secondary school in the 90s, most professors taught students how to research and analyze. They asked students to "answer in their own words." Now professors demand that the students "answer in OUR words." These two concepts are worlds apart and very telling of the times.
@@leegaul2161 yes interesting you said that. I often heard "answer in our words" when I was in high school. Luckily for my English degree, I was taught to research and answer in my own words
They need those students to follow the swiss cheese narrative. They must not think. He must silenced
This shows how much the 'wokeness' and stupidity has corrupted American universities and colleges. After I had been laid off I went back to college. It was a technical college/university but we still had the required courses such as math, English composition, Literature etc. I had made a change in majors where one of my courses was 'Critical Thinking'. At the very last moment, we were told we'd have a different instructor teaching 'Humanities'. Talk about being dumbfounded and pissed. Since earning my degree it has become more well known and wide spread that other universities were abandoning 'Critical Thinking' as part of the normal college curriculum. Look at our society. We have a young generation that can't think for themselves or make important decisions. If we don't reverse this soon, it will be too late.
Sounds like he can apply to X to pay all his legal expenses to sue the school as Gina Carano is doing with Disney.
The school has lost a good teacher. What a great loss to those students.
He isn’t a teacher I go too that school didn’t know he got fired though
He needs to expose the people responsible for this. Names and school
At least the district
I agree! ✅I hope Elon Musk helps him out. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams lol. Sure. That's what's gonna help society
Actually no. Best course of action would be to withhold all information from social media and sue the school. If he’d start posting names that could probably be used against him even and destabilise the court case.
That is absolutly horrible
How dare he teach students critical thinking
than blindly letting others opinion decide for the students.
As a teacher, I heavily focus on critical thinking. I don't give the students answers. I have them think and come up with their own opinions backed up by evidence, playing devil's advocate to get them thinking about ALL sides of topics, not just what social media and the internet spews out. People need to learn how to think for themselves, as well as think outside the box and outside of social norms. Questioning everything is EXACTLY how you learn from your mistakes and from others mistakes as well. This teacher has the grounds to sue for wrongful termination.
Then watch your back. Educational bureaucrats aren't kind to freedom.
@@evalramman7502 I had to retire early due to COVID. I taught abroad and unfortunately was laid off. I still tutor from time to time, but it isn't the same.
@@CrystalN00na Sorry to hear that.
This is a complete and utter disgrace ... this school should be absolutely ashamed. It is disgusting.
I agree! ✅I hope Elon Musk helps him out. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcamsEven though we are hardwired to get satisfaction from eating animals and never would have existed without eating them? We are intelligent animals, not fairies and it's a cruel world.
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams How does anything talked about in this video relate to veganism???
@@ThatVeganTeacherCZcams ThatVeganTeacher spotted in the wild😨
Go back to your cave
Those dedicated to their critical theories attack their main enemy, critical thinking.
What an amazing teacher! I can only hope and pray that he gets offered an even better job- multiple offers.
Heaven forbid you ask a student to think!
When I was in high school critical thinking was part of the curriculum. There's a reason why it stopped.
We also had an "introduction to critical thinking" course at high school. Teacher told us they wanted it to be adopted at many other schools as well but didn't get anywhere
@@playingtheatrically9738 "Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." - George Carlin
Actually, critical thinking and reading comprehension exists in my school's curriculum. I guess there are some schools that know what education is supposed to be.
Same.
And when it wasn't a topic; all of our graded works were graded for it.
Yes. It’s difficult to control true thinkers.
When I was in school it was the teachers only job to teach critical thinking at least in language arts.
And we wonder why our future generation is so re-'d . Our 9th graders are reading at a 3rd grade level, our HS seniors don't know how to do basic algebra, and our college students can't name when the US was founded or name more than 3 presidents names. Heaven forbid you actually try to teach them anything, you might step on a slowflakes toe and get fired for it like he did.
These schools are all 'graded' by the government, and if they do bad on these 'grades' they get less funding each year. They are already paid next to nothing, and with that looming over their head, the administration will not allow you to simply flunk a student because they deserve to flunk, you have to pass them or you lose your job. Now everybody who should have been held back a year are now going to college and going into major debt for something they are unprepared for and unable to actually absorb any information out of. Our entire future is going to be in the hands of people who can't do any sort of critical thinking and just spew out whatever misinformation they read off their phone on twitter that day.
My sister calls it "devolution".
If he was sacked for that productive & harmless exchange then the people responsible have really lost the plot. Even worse, they have authority.
I wonder how the students , who were treated as intelligent people , feel about this ? I would have been so angry .
I agree. ✅I hope Elon Musk helps out this young teacher by finding him a new job. We need great vegan teachers like him who engage in critical-thinking with their students. This is how we lead people into realizing that veganism is a moral baseline for all intelligent, kind-hearted people who are against slavery and oppression of innocent sentient beings. 💚
JK Rowling should found a school where she hires teachers like him who teaches students not what to think but how to think critically.
Can I have my opinion to state that "Since he did it in America, that's why he was fired"??
🤯🤯🤯
I’d be happy for that teacher to educate my children
Authoritarianism has no room for individualism. You parrat it back exactly with a smile on your face. OR you dont have a job.
Teachers who encourage critical thinking, more than bandwagon ideas or out of date curriculum are worth so much
As a primary school teacher in a private school, we even had specific lessons every week for critical thinking. During that time, we would discuss the news headlines for the week. That’s far more important than how many wives Henry Vlll had.
The entire world is jumping off the roof of a 50 storey building all at the same time !!!
Yep
Great analogy.
And they convinced themselves that they are happy about that and that this is an absolute natural sequence of events. 🤯🤯🤯
Lemmings go in groups. Individuals look like the lone f00ls. That's why a single individual who tries to preach about Eratosthenes, a certain well, several measurements, and a Summer Solstice to thousands of flat-Earthers would easily be tr011ed, cajoled, mocked, blocked, ostracized, and eventually removed from social media due to ToS v10lat10ns. :)
@@Marie16240 It isn't? I thoughtl almost all viruses and most parasites were self-destructive? Humans just classified themselves wrong... ;)
(I jest with dark humor, but it really is a sad state the world is in).
If only the left did that; problem solved. The reality is the left is pushing the rest of the world off a 50 story building.
Not anyplace other then the west china is raping africa and starting to control half the hemisphere with its BLOC and allies/Vassals
So what are teachers for if not to teach you to think for yourself?
Communist state sponsored propaganda i am guessing.
To teach you what to think.
The institution wants drones. Zombies. $1av3$. Corporations are NOT interested in critical thinkers; they want robots. :) "Teachers" are supposed to be programming these little android sheeples, baby. ;) #MoMunneh
Indoctrination of course. /s
Babysit
This is so messed up
It's simple, he challenged an opinion and asked the person he was discussing with to logically work through how they got to the opinion, it's the most dangerous thing to teach in todays world, how to question your beliefs and form your own opinions based off of real events and evidence rather than regurgitating an opinion with zero knowledge of whether of not what they're saying is true, to educate a kid this much in the span of minutes is the scariest thing the machine has seen, the fact that this story is hitting the news is terrible news for the machine, it may actually make other people question their actions and beliefs and become more educated and possibly even willing to not speak on the behalf of something if they have not done the proper research to justify them having such a strong opinion on said thing.
My experience as an educator is that, with few exceptions, the educational administrators are the most unimaginative, timid, "don't rock the boat" minds out there. Additionally, they are prone to dogmatism and, therefore, repelled by critical thinking.
I'd extend that same comparison to administrators in health sector too, and other bureaucrats.. they are then backed by equally spineless and unqualified politicians..
That’s why they treat students as herding cattle instead of actually doing their job. Teach. It’s literally in the name of their fking job. Lmao. I would petition to change the profession name from teacher to farmer. But that would be a disgrace to the farmers who actually provide something useful to society
Administrators, middle management, bureaucrats. Look through the dull cow eyes and see the enemy
It is darkest before the dawn.
In the interest of critical thinking I would like to point out that the reasons for Mr. Smith's termination were only discussed here in so far as being unknown, at least to the people speaking in this clip. No reference is made to the existence or non-existence of a statement from the school, it is not clear whether the newsroom sought clarification on this aspect from any source beyond the teacher in question. That the act of teaching his student to think critically is, in itself, the basis for Mr. Smith's termination is an assumption, not-on the basis of the information presented here-a proven fact.
SAD