Teacher gives ‘masterclass’ in critical thinking after student calls JK Rowling 'bigoted'
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- A teacher in the US has gone viral for his response to a student's question about JK Rowling’s supposed transphobia.
Warren Smith was asked if he still liked the author’s work despite her “bigoted opinions”, and the video of his reply was shared by Elon Musk on X.
Mr Smith joined Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan to discuss the clip.
“This came out accidentally, we have interactions like this on a daily basis - this one just happened to be captured on camera," Mr Smith told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.
"This is about more than JK Rowling, it's the realisation that his prior assumptions, he was going off of 'well I've heard that this is true, so many people have told me that this is true'.
"And when you experience that for yourself and it crumbles, then you have to question, logically what else am I assuming to be true that perhaps might not be, and that changes the way you view the world."
A teacher who is into education not indoctrination - so rare.
They do exist; he is not the only one. However, many fear losing their jobs or worse, so they don't want to rock the boat. I hope more will see this and realize that there is nothing to fear from giving students the ability to reason for themselves.
This is the difference between teaching and just receiving and following a syllabus.
He'll be disciplined in a few months by his admin, but under the pretext of another mildly or contrived controversial subject.
And from Mass too.
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Serious respect for the student, he was able to admit that he was wrong. Anyone who is willing to use their critical thinking skills without regurgitating talking points deserves respect. He’s not too far gone.
He recognised the teacher's platform of authority and responded directly and honestly to his sequence of questions.
I have seen countless debates where someone sees the logic journey a question is inviting them to take and changes the subject or whatabouts before they arrive at the destination they don't want to reach. Learning happens when a good teacher meets a good student.
How so? The video was so cut up your can’t even get what the actual conversation was lol
Imagine if the school's allowed flat earthers to have their own subject based on what they believe.
Biology is a subject in every school, so the school's contradict themselves if they allow such misinformation about trans folk.
By all means, if the trans community can actually prove what they're brainwashing people to believe, then it should be taught. But they can't prove it, so it has no right within the education system as it's the opposite of educational.
Seems like that’s the environment this teacher has created.
He didnt learn that he was wrong, he learnt that assuming that many people saying something doesnt make that thing true. JK Rowling may be a bigot, but not because many people call her like that on social media. Thats the real lesson here.
A teacher being a teacher is now somehow amazing. Don't get me wrong, I applaud this guy. It's just so damn sad how far we've fallen.
In times when common sense doesn't seem common anymore.
@@GenJuhru "common sense" is what got us here. Western culture uses it as a crutch and as a meaningless attack of intelligence. "I would do it this way, so everyone else should also do it this way." It's an excuse of inaction or inability and created a legacy of poor thinking, poor teaching, poor parenting, and poor mentoring.
@@teeemm9456 "common sense" is tried and tested, kept us safe and to deal with others appropriately. Then there's culture and religion, which are most likely the culprit of the negative view on "common sense".
@@GenJuhru it's a useless excuse, a crutch, and a tired cliche that plagues western societies like STDs and drugs. It's mostly mimicking wisdom but people assume it's applicable, regardless of knowledge or experience. It is one of the reasons the education systems have become ever increasing cesspools, scaring away more qualified teachers. People assume teachers use "common sense" and teachers are basically responsible for raising a large portion of the country, since many parents aren't doing it.
Sure, let's keep assuming common sense will win the day though, it will champion society into the future on golden wings of glory. Society today wasn't an accident, it was neglect, and "common sense" is the backbone of that neglect.
It's not over.
We still have 5-6 years left of this idiocy that is "feelings over facts", aka feminism.
The tide is turning in the favor of science, it just takes time to abolish the ideologies that the youth have been indoctrinated with, that includes everything from religion(fewer and fewer people become religious) to feminism (more and more women are anti-feminists) to "trans" (more and more countries are banning the whole concept), it just takes time.
The tide has turned, now the waves have to build up. 5-6 years.
I’m the teacher in the video. I’m not going to be allowed to record anymore in the classroom but I hope to find an alternative to continue. Thank you all so much for your support.
Thanks for existing.
You're still in the USA, that school is public property, you have a 1st amendment right to video record
What you said right at the end of this video was incredibly profound and inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you for all that you do.
This is the problem today. Students are not taught to think, they are taught to follow, to accept, to believe. They are like sheep. They fall appart in a proper debate and resort to insults and childish name calling
You're attacking me!
It's because of the toxic side of freedoms and rights defined as "the right of speech" and "the right of opinion". We lack the explicit rights like "the right to think for oneself", "the right to change one's mind in light of new info", "the right to be corrected when wrong". I think we need rights and freedom to define the right to evolve and develop our thinking, not just rights to defend a static viewpoint.
You can't teach people how to think....that's a natural biological thing, called natural curiosity but it is eroded away by the system.
A generation of middle class kids are now covert and overt narcissists all down to industrial scale helicopter parenting, coddling and infantilisation their parents are on their knees and desperate to appease them even if it brings the entire house of cards down.
It's always been this way except now it's become so ridiculous that a blind man can see it.
Look at how intently he listens to what Piers is saying. First step in critical thinking is critical listening/interpretation.
We live in a world were we're talkers, but not listeners, or understanders.
The first step in critical thinking is realizing that not every outcome derives from the same set of steps in every circumstance.
@@highroller-jq3ix In an effort to practice what I'm preaching, let's look at this comment.
This comment's premise is that the first step of critical thinking is not critical listening/interpretation, but instead that the first step is the self-realization that for some situation you've measured the outcome of, there exists many potential routes to achieve that outcome, even in situations that require specialized rules or context.
Let me begin by saying thanks for your input and that I 100% agree with the meat of your argument, which to me is equivalent to the old saying "there's more than one way to skin a cat." My dispute is that acknowledging this is the first step in critical thinking.
To arrive at your conclusion organically requires you to observe a situation in which you are able to identify the actions performed to achieve some expected outcome, and what the actual outcome achieved as a result of those actions is. Next, you need to identify its possible to perform different actions to effect the outcome, then theorize about what actions you could potentially perform to effect the outcome.
However, in order to reach this point you needed to identify the two steps in the paragraph above, and put them in order, which is the practice of critical interpretation.
If critical interpretation is required to formulate the premise of your argument it is logically impossible for your argument to precede critical listening/interpretation.
@@jarrodfodemski1018 To assert that critical thinking is a process only by which arguments are derived shows a dearth of critical thinking. Further, valid arguments require multiple premises, so either you committed a bonehead error, or are way out of your depth. Not all data or empirical evidence engaged through critical thinking is auditory or verbal, so yet another flawed contention that demonstrates compromised critical thinking. Further, not all data requires interpretation, so you are wrong yet again.
@@marcusantonius3371 It is pedantic, for sure, because I was trying to be gracious which he didn’t return so I’ll just be succinct here: how the hell can you allow yourself to be open to critical thinking if you can’t define/interpret critical thinking?
He’s just pissed I called him out for being wrong, but… it’s a post ABOUT CRITICAL THINKING! 🤣
We need more teachers like this man!!! Good on the student for being open minded and willing to learn something to!!
I wasn't rehired in Oregon in part because I _was_ teaching kids to critically think and form their own opinions. Go figure rural towns don't like uppity kids that can think for themselves... and a music teacher exposing students to all different kinds of music beyond country and English. Good for this gentleman for having a receptive audience.
Kid should have been able to read & interpret tweets for himself.
@@Undomaranel somehow i don't think it would be too different in american cities either.
thats credit for the teacher for forcing open that mind , and not accepting the lazy drivel he started out with
@@unowen-nh9ov They should but mostly don't. Peer pressure is a big factor, especially on kids. Social acceptance is as well. If the people surround you say that JK Rowling is bigotted, good luck saying No and not expecting a backlash.
Critical thinking needs to be a mandatory class
But that would undermine anti-"woke" ideology, transphobic shrieking, and religious batshittery.
I've been saying this for fifteen years! Critical thinking needs to be it's own mandatory core class along with math, science, language, and history, elementary through undergrad. By now a teacher could come up with a new example of logical fallacy to use in their lesson every single class just by opening social media.
And the first enrollees should be school boards.
High order thinking is hard thing to teach. From my experience, the school has been trying to implement HOTs long enough, but parents are not on board. Because it's hard, and stressful most of the times. And even if the school succeeds, the students only use it in school. Once they're at home, the parents often don't like if their kids questioning things. Parents' attitude towards students' critical thinking is often disappointing.
@@CymbaletteJaneMS The best examples of fallacies come from right wing rhetoric such as Sky News churns out.
Kylo Ren spitting anti-woke facts in a classroom far far away.
Lol
Afterward he smashed his sith mask lol
The actual* Kylo ren has come out with some very non-woke opinions. He is pretty gangster
Thank you internet, you put into words what the plebs were thinking……
😂
Good to see Adam Driver trying out new professions.
😂 😭 blahahaha
Yeah😂
It’s like Adam driver and Mclovin had a kid
Y’all so thirsty
Adam Driver meets Adrien Brody
I have several conversations with my students on difficult topics and my statement at the end is always, "I am not necessarily concerned with your decision, I am more concerned with how you arrived at your decision".
Same as math.
Show your workings.
Same
I'm stealing this statement!😅
As a clinician and instructor, I say something similar to clients and adult students; namely, that I'm much less wedded to their decisions as I am to how reactively vs how deliberately they made that decision. Feelings are not facts.
Definitely just like math
Well done to the school for allowing him to teach properly
A Teacher who teaches by asking the basic question. Why? Absolutely amazing that we still have teachers qualified to bear the name. God bless him for teaching people how to think instead of what to think.
"God" it's FCKN embarrassing that you can't see the irony in citing yourPOSCockLOVER god in the sky.
Piers Morgan's nonsense is the real target to be dealt with this way.
Why would your god fantasy care? It seems like you are thoroughly indoctrinated in what to think.
@@highroller-jq3ix Considering God has been with me from the day I was stillborn, and has saved me on many occasions. God bless you, and I will pray for you to find Jesus. God bless America
@@highroller-jq3ix SkyCunt god BelieverFCKS don't know irony even when it slaps them in the face.
This teacher is one of the, until now, unsung heroes in the world.
May all teacher see this as an example to follow.
This is a good teacher because I have no idea what his own feelings are on the subject, and thats how good teachers should be.
Breaking NEWS a teacher does their job. What a world we live in.
Lmao exactly
It's not a teachers job to develop critical thinking amongst students.
It’s sad that this such a rare thing these days as to make such a story newsworthy. But that’s the world we live in now.
What is their job ? babysit ?@@ultrainstinct3802
@@ultrainstinct3802what? If it isn’t a teachers job to teach critical thinking then what is their job? Teachers today don’t teach it. They teach “facts” we didn’t learn how to think about things. We learned how to pass a test and what to know. It ruined our generation.
This guy is all class... A true mentor. Would be glad to have him teaching my children.
What a great teacher. As a former teacher myself I empathise with his idea that it is important to teach children to think for themselves. What a much better world this would be if more of our young learned to think for themselves rather than taking so much dogma at face value today.
Exactly! So no more religion or wingnut ideology. I'm with you!
As a fellow teacher… I love this. Good job, mate
Are the teachers prevented somehow to teach their students to think independently?
@@lamel1781 No, they aren't. But many teachers lost their job for doing so, especially when that goes against a current political agenda. I mean, that's not a news, it was happening through out the whole history and it happens today as well.
A teacher wouldn't type multiple full-stops.
Kids do that, not adults.
As a fellow teacher, I love this. Good job, mate.*
Be an example, that is your job after all.
when i was in highschool i had a certain far left teacher. we read "the house of the spirits" and at the end she asked us "So what lessons did we take away from this book?"
Well if you know the story, you know the daughter of the main character near the end is imprisoned, tortured, and raped. I said that the story showed that people could go through horrible things like rape and still come out strong or even stronger at the end. She was SO triggered by that statement that she went to the principles during lunch break and asked that i not be allowed to return to the class afterwards because what i said was so offensive.
I was beyond confused when i was told i couldnt go back and why (they grabbed me on the way back to the class), I was like "she asked a question, i answered it honestly....why??" @@lamel1781
@@lamel1781teaching kids to think critically is a hell of a job. Social media like the very one we're commenting on have brainwashed people. People like Piers Morgan too. Takes a lot of time to show them contradicting opinions and teach them how to read those.
in my daughters class they had a debate on men participating in womens sports and the 2 girls who said they were against it got attacked to the point of tears by other students and the teacher did nothing. Its unfortunate that this man's class is not the norm.
How could a person who has gone through male puberty be allowed to participate in any sport in the famale team is beyond me. We might as well stop dividing them into male and female categories because it looses its meaning - carriers of the XX chromosomes have significantly less muscle mass, end of discussion. And I am liberal through and through.
Rage it, sickening transphobe.
@@bunnysm You're a liar through and through. But when you have actual medical credentials, and can distinguish sex from gender, do check back in.
Are they okay?
Jesus
A good teacher he seems very calming with his voice
This young man gives me hope for the education🙏🏻🇨🇦
That was in the states.🇨🇦has lost the plot in education.😶🌫️🥸🤡
For the education of who. Go back and get some education.
@@sheilacooke6702 When did Canada have the plot?
This teacher is in the HR office tomorrow getting his resignation. As he’s not the useful idiot they intended to hire 😂
You are probably correct sadly 😢
Bloody hope not!
@@Harassed247 for the record: "neither do I" but that's America and Penn State I mean the levels of idiocy in both institutions has raised fever pitch unfortunately.
@@richardshortall5987 I’m afraid you’re right.
They will take the first opportunity to fire him.
This man is a true educator. I was just like his student for years, super liberal just took ppl at their word, never even bothered to watch or listen to conservative ppl or media. I started watching n listening to what conservatives were saying only so i knew their arguments n was able to argue against their views and what ended up happening was me realizing that what they were saying made way more logical sense than the left.
Just know that before you begin romanticizing one side, be sure that you will also find the same loonies that you encountered on the other side (you choose!).
So now you're a "logical" Trump slut? Keen.
But then you are just doing the same this time with the conservative side. You can't say, that "oh, this side is better than that side". You need to hear out both nd then pick and choose the ideas (not sides) from each. Like I agree with this from side A and with that from side B. The endresult will be probably a mixture of ideas from both sides. No side is perfect, both has good and bad ideology.
Finally a teacher that is teaching about self thinking and not public BS!
He will for sure get fired
He's an actor and the video is fake@@curbantula
It's not "self thinking." I think you meant independent thinking. Self thinking is simply thinking about yourself; it has nothing to do with thinking FOR yourself, independent thinking, or critical thinking.
@curbantula If he has tenure that'll be difficult. But I guarantee you he's getting job offers from the best private schools across the country.
@pilferedbrimley657 Lmaoooo, "he's an actor." You start with the conclusion and backwards rationalize towards your own confirmation bias.
You were never taught critical thinking skills were you? Unless you have a teacher like him, you can only cultivate critical thinking via the debate team, mock trial, or attending law school. So 99% of the population is incapable of critical thinking.
Try reading some books on the subject so that you actually know how to come to conclusions via evaluating the logical validity of opposing arguments, analyzing evidence, and always remaining aware of your fallibility. You should actively seek out highly intelligent, well informed people to debate in order to see if they can tear your argument to shreds. If they do, you must revise your conclusions or at least add more nuance to them.
Pierce asked intelligent, non-leading questions. The teacher listened, then took a moment to formulate his answer. Then Pierce listened, and didn't interrupt to inject his own interpretation. These two men could teach society a great deal.
He used the socratic method to teach? How novel. Good to see it all the same.
We know what happened to Socrates
It's all Greek to me...I'll show myself out!
b..b..BuT sOcRaTes wAs A wHiTe mAN!!! 🙄
@@oldfartinthenight9201😂
@@EL-FUKKOexecuted for asking too many questions. Scary
This were the kind of teachers I had when I was a student. A healthy debate that hones children's critical thinking. Kids today tend to make their opinions their personalities
THIS is education.
Student who learned something from this teacher: "Wow I was just taught about critical thinking. I will be using the elements of critical thinking from now on in all discussions regarding government and society."
THIS. IS. SPARTAAAAAA
imagine a teacher doing their job properly being something newsworthy
If you were a critical thinker, you would recognize this is all about wingnut transphobia and "woke" hysteria.
Ta Da 'How to Think, not what to think' :) so sweet, so accurate.
So you’re not gonna play the clip? Some context might’ve been nice
Don't worry, the teacher will be canceled. Diversity of opinion and critical thinking is not allowed. 😂
Wokism honestly is better than any propaganda US enemies could make. Divides the whole nation
😂
He just needs to identify as something else, and flip the transphobia arguement back at any *triggered* people.
Warren can be Wanda. Bam, Uno Reverse Card.
@@thomasandersen5349 😁
@@thomasandersen5349 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great teacher❤
Reminds me of my history teacher who told me that the purpose of studying history is to learn how to think.
Yes! And to question the viewpoint of each historian. They all have their bias, so you have to be able to see all the sides and search for the facts. We can learn a lot from history, especially in spotting (and hopefully avoiding) past mistakes.
Wow. A young guy who teaches the way they did in the 80s
Really? I don't remember any of this when I was in school in the eighties. I had to teach myself critical thinking. But I'm in the US.
Looks like he was born in the 80s like me. Young teacher. Well compared to you both 😅
@@PR7-82 looks like he was born in the 90s... hate to break it to you but you're an old fart too!😅
@@strawpiglet I’m in Australia and I went to a private boys school. They teachers were spot on and handled us like men
@@australianmade2659 Teachers are arrested for that in the UK 🤣
Learning to scrutinize my sources was one of the most important lessons I learned in college. I enjoy teaching people this whenever they try feeding me some malarkey they saw on social media.
More teachers like this is desperately needed.
That Teacher deserves a raise.
Why?
@@highroller-jq3ixFor thinking truthfully.
@@juliemesser2053 Can you demonstrate truthful thinking and indicate how that would fit into an equitable wage scale even if you could demonstrate it?
What a humble man!
yeah i'm impressed in his calm nature 😂
Not really he seems kinda full of himself tbh
@@blakefrancisboggs7526humility is a vice
@@Weirdomanification what?
To those in the comments saying "Liberals get owned" and shit like that, you completely missed the point being taught by Smith
Hats off to Professor Warren Smith of Emerson in Boston 🙌 May other professors stand for truth, whatever they may bring 🤗
She?
@@oolivegreenthey
Emerson, along with most NE unis, are where this woke crap fomented. MA K-12 schools, both teachers & administrators, are CONSTANTLY pushing ideology in the classrooms, at the expense of childrens' education.
@@glenmisha oh 🤣 I was confused where the she came from lol
This teacher is amazing, i wish he could sit down with so many people to show them how to think thru things before they stick their doot in their mouth!! Bravo Teach!! So many people say yhe same response "they heard this or that"....when u should never listen to rumors, u should get the facts yourself!
This was an ok FIRST lesson in critical thinking. However, consider the following:
1. Did you search for and watch the actual full footage ?
2. Reading two tweets is not enough information to make conclusions on. It's good that the student realised they didn't have enough information, however there was a bit of "leading the witness going on". The student did not say the quote the teacher attributes them to have said at the beginning. They in fact admitted they had head of controversy not that "it was a fact."
The teacher provided a first lesson in defining out terms and searching for information, but without follow up it can also lead to misconceptions and the way fox news is presenting it is to push their own agenda.
Thank you someone with some reason here. Ppl criticizing other educators of telling kids how to think, but I feel like this teacher was pretty much doing the same thing. It really has an air of “your conclusion is not what I think so let me challenge you and act like I’m giving you some meaningful life lesson while I’m actually guiding you to think more like me. And also give you some pressure cause I’m in a position of authority.”
This is good
Ultimately, this teacher was still engaging in a PowerPlay to have the student come around to his way of thinking.
This is actually a conversation I have with my students relatively regularly.
I’ve been a fan of Harry Potter for decades. That doesn’t mean that I am in obligated to support J. K. Rowling’s position on trans people. I have taken the time to specifically read her posts and her articles on the matter. I teach information literacy. I’ve talked to my students about the difference between disagreeing with a person, choosing to withdraw your support for their work, and disliking a piece of work.
We’ve analyzed her comments.
We talk about the fact that I don’t have to agree with them, and they don’t have to agree with me, but they need to use trustworthy sources, they need to use sources rather than go with assumptions, and they need to be able to communicate their position without invalidating or dehumanizing anyone else.
One of my arguments is that I quotes from the Harry Potter cannon that would suggest the J. K. Rowling herself is fully aware that the actions she’s taking would have negative consequences. Further, I go find sources of data and information that counter her arguments and I focus on that. When I’m talking about her I’m talking about how she chooses to use her platform, and how she is not, in fact, using factually verifiable information. In fact, she has acknowledged how much of her certainty that predators are going to target females in bathrooms is based on her horrific experience with sexual assault. Unfortunately, she has not yet been able to separate that very real trauma from her judgements about entire groups of people, and she is not able to acknowledge her own biases.
I’ve had students who think that I shouldn’t refer to the Harry Potter stories, anymore, or that I shouldn’t wear the T-shirt. I’m currently wearing about mischief being managed. I’ve had students, including kids, who are trans tell me that the stories are more important to them than she is. we talk about thinking and we talk about communicating. I’m not gonna tell them what authors they should like. I’m not gonna tell them what stories should resonate with them.
I’m going to encourage them to think about their reasons. I don’t care whether it’s the reason for disagreeing with someone’s point of view, the reason for pursuing a particular career, or their reason for ordering pizza instead of a hamburger. I want them to have the skills to make choices, based on an awareness of their needs, their priorities, their values, and the consequences of their choices. And I can disagree with them, or I can have requirements about behavior, without it, being a judgement on who they are as human beings.
I would be interested to know how this teacher feels about the concept of admitting, if or when he’s wrong. That’s one thing that I do with my students. If I’m not sure of something, or if I make a statement, I’m pretty confident about but not entirely certain about, we look it up on the board. If I’m wrong, I admit it, acknowledge the kid, who was correct, and/or, I think the student who asked me whether I was sure. I’m not a teacher, because I’m always right, I’m a teacher, because I have expertise and experience that my students don’t have, but I learned from them on a regular basis.
I read through all of the comments on this video, and although I think a lot of people were trying to say that they encourage critical thought, the way most people expressed it. It sounded like it was mostly in praise of that is critical of things they don’t agree with. That does not encompass what it means to engage in critical thinking. we should be able to engage in critical thinking about the things that we do agree with, and beliefs that we do hold.
I find it odd that this individual was saying that it, “wasn’t just about J. K. Rowling,” because if it was really prioritizing critical, thinking, it wouldn’t have been about her at all.
It’s fine that he has a strong opinion and that it’s something he cares about so he used it as a teachable moment. But it seems misleading to suggest that this wasn’t about the topic of conversation. Particularly given the show on which this was being discussed, and given where it has gotten a lot of traction, and who has been supportive of it, it seems like it really is about a particular individual.
There are, in fact, teachers engaging students in critical thinking practice every day, on wide variety of topics and issues. We do not, however, go viral on X or get the attention of media or political pundits don’t want people thinking to critically about a lot of claims around out there. The praise only comes if/when the students come to the same conclusions as their parents, or the people commenting. And that is a fairly fickle beast.
Every teacher should learn from this man. Thank you sir!
"I feel like an idiot now".
Sometimes feelings ARE based in reality..
Nope, if he was an idiot, he would’ve kept a closed mind and thrown a fit. He listened, learnt and communicated! That’s a lot for these days.
He _was_ an idiot, but is recovering. And honestly, if the student has been subjected to modern education to this point, it wasn’t his fault that he didn’t think for himself.
@@nostalgiagatuna If the teacher had presented rational arguments, like chromosomes, the student would have shut down.
Instead, the teacher made the student argue his claim, that JK Rowling is "bigoted" and "transphobic".
He couldn't, and that made him FEEL like an idiot.
FEELINGS changed his mind, not rational arguments (facts).
@@hansemannluchter643 He's a teenager at the end of the day. And teens learn to fit into society, largely based on what emotions they receive as feedback from adults within the society. It seems counterproductive to be mad at a teenager for being a teenager, no? If your goal is to see society change for the better, then maybe direct your anger at adults, not impressionable teens. Honestly though, based on your responses, you probably gave up a long time ago.
@@hansemannluchter643 No, it was a logical method of arguing. The teacher pointed out that the student had placed a burden of proof upon himself which he could not substantiate. It is not unlike a DA prosecuting a suspect for first degree murder simply because there was a homicide, then withdrawing that prosecution when there is an alibi, or video proving the homicide was in self-defense. The student did not realize that his baseless assertion was absurd because so many other people had told him it was true, and he simply took it for granted. Feelings only come secondary to the logical process in this argument.
That first second is brilliant "EeEeRrR" hahahahahahaha
Thinking students are dangerous. They don’t want them able to think just do as they are told.
But their parents should teach them to think for themselfes too, shouldn't they.
"...just smart enough to keep the machines running, but not smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and realize how badly their getting fucked by a system the threw them overboard 40 years ago."
-George Carlin
@@sailirish7 Lets quote Carlin, a progressive socialist lashing out against the authoritarian capitalist system, to justify your opinions against the woke. I cannot believe how stupid this whole comment section is. The student was going along with what he heard and the moment he was challenged by his teacher he made the same mistake again. He instantly believed the teacher instead of researching. JK Rowling is publicly anti-trans, it is not a smear campaign it is her own publicly shared opinions. The student is allowed to form his own opinions but should be guided away from just following what he has heard, even when it is someone in a position of authority like a teacher.
@@sailirish7 good quote, george carlin is great
Its sad that he lost his Job for telling the truth
How utterly refreshing . (& the guy has a great smile ! )
And surprise surprise... Warren Smith was just fired by his school.
Imagine students would actually start thinking for themselves...
This man is restoring my faith in the educational system.
I love the irony of people watching this video and suddenly losing the ability to critically think for themselves.
Please inform yourselves of the context, particularly of Maya Forstater and what JK rowling is referring to in her tweets.
Then make your own minds up about the situation. Rather than retorting the words of people with their own prior assumptions who themselves haven't done their research, or y'all are hypocrites.
For context, I commend the teacher for promoting critical thinking, but please understand that this goes both ways in a political debate.
3:40 The fact that this even needs to be said is astonishing, isn't it? I'm from the UK and when I was in high school in the early 2000s, adults were adults. They looked like regular people and stuck to their subject. They weren't volatile activists.
Now that is a teacher!
How thirsty we are for truth. We will drink from a rain puddle as if it were a fathomless crystal pure lake. I give deep respect to the tutor and the kid for living a true Socratic moment. Thank God we could see it.
How long did you work on that vapid Hallmark card? And which god fantasy arranged it again?
He's so great. Calm and in control. 🙌🏻
Don't judge a book by it's cover or an author by her critics....
You spelled "its" incorrectly.
@@robertwilliams5618 No, there is an apostrophe after the T it's a contraction. Know your grammar, or just don't be a twat Robert.
@@robertwilliams5618depends which set of grammar rules you are utilizing. When I was a child we were taught that ‘it’ could be possessive with an apostrophe unlike many are taught today. The original comment is talking of the cover that ‘it’ owns hence the apostrophe.
@@robertwilliams5618 "Its" and "whose" are often misspelled on the internet as "it's" and "who's" (respectively).
@@Satans_Legion_of_Evil yea, people don't know how to spell to vs too either. What a sad world this is.
We've been exposed to activist teachers for so long that one who actually teaches young people to think is sadly amazing
This is why I am considering home-schooling my daughter 😊
Too many teachers do the opposite of this guy.
When I did a Masters of Teaching, we were told to tell kids what to think, not how to think.
How the world changed. I learned how to think, and to challenge your own fixed ideas, compare different viewpoints etc.
I'll be honest and say it ought to be primarily how to think and elements of what to think by comparative argumentation. So if you say don't steal, you explain exactly why and expose your own ideas to scrutiny. If an adequate challenge comes up, you acknowledge it as such and give credit to it even if you do not agree with the student.
In matters of ethics and morality, there has to be a little guidance. I am not comfortable with a teacher who is unwilling to tell my kid to not use objectively offensive language as opposed to saying things a person doesn't want to be told but are said without ill-will; to not mock the underprivileged; to judge personality rather than stick to biases; to seek academic excellence even if their friends make fun of them for it.
These some things a teacher absolutely should tell a student how to think about. And if the teacher doesn't believe this, that person should not teach.
Rowling's tweets are years old & there for ANYONE who can READ, how is being told WHAT to think an improvement?
@@unowen-nh9ov I think you misunderstand. He is saying teachers are actually taught to teach kids to accept ideas without question. He is exposing how deep and extensive the problem is.
@@markverani5088 Thats it. I quit my masters if teaching when I realised most of the people I'd bee working with would be like that
Teacher student interaction is imperative to learning. Like a young man and his wise mentor you must have respect.
You don't know everything in life, unless you are happy to discuss and listen to different views, options and experiences from others you will never learn the life skills needed to survive.
Personal life experience is full of making mistakes, but others have already made them and set the footprints, this is also known as culture. Only you can choose your path. Critical thinking is a must for a healthy society.
This young man is a breath of fresh air.
The reason why the purple hairs squeal and shriek at people they disagree with is that it affects other people hearing a different opinion.
Their bleating drowns out other voices, and so a discussion can’t take place.
The discussion is what gave the student time to think and reason and change his mind.
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Simple as that.
The hair is a warning, like those frogs with wild skin colours that are poisonous. If I'm near one of them, I'm on alert.
@@RuthDunstan 😂
🤣 Oh love this
Exactly. If we have clear what is a man/woman, what is a S3xual Development Disorder, what is gender dysphoria and that there's no tribe or culture in the world that recognize more genders (mostly are just homophobic tribes that don't recognize gay men as just men)...then, what would be the basis of their identity?
A non binary needs that everyone believe in gender theory, in order to being taken seriously and not being treated as just an urban tribe. Of course they scream, or people will realize that their coloured hair are just their clown categories.
You nailed it. Screaming and gesticulating wildly diverts attention away from critical thinking and drown out the voices that do want to engage in critical thinking/questioning/analyzing. That's why you see crazies refusing to debate.
This was awesome! But you need to share the video link!
Sadly far too many people are intellectually lazy and simply adopt sound bites as their preferred 'facts' rather than checking out the claims before accepting them as facts. It is simply easier for them to go with sound bites and this is pure laziness.
Agree, it’s easy to go with the rest of the flock instead of stopping and asking why.
It's not only laziness. It's genuine realisation that society sucks and is unfair, and wanting to do something about it. Most of the woke kids have their heart at the right place, they just fight the wrong causes.
@@tdb517 There is nothing genuine about their beliefs. Time and time again we do see the woke mob not knowing what they are supporting and as for society not being fair, we live in a fairer society than most Muslims do and the Muslims that live here want to believe that they are being repressed by the West, so instead of moving to an Islamic country which best suits their needs, they have decided to act as a 5th column.
We live in a society where the idiots are ruling the roost, where the lunatics are in control of the asylum. Had the German population bothered to understand what Hitler and his henchmen were actually peddling, I struggle to believe that Hitler would have ever seen the inside of the Chancellory never mind becoming their Chancellor.
It's just no intellectual laziness, is also not interacting with people that think different from you.
Everybody at some point has just accepted opinions as facts. But if you heard a different opinion, you can learn something and let some bad ideas and reasoning behind... They can't, because their friendships depend much more on agreements than acceptance.
@@genzi78514 I don't agree. It is intellectual laziness. These people cannot be bothered sitting down with a book on the subject and read it, nor do they spend hours watching debates, why? Because they can't be bothered, they are too lazy for that, so they just go with the easy explanations, the ones we find in sound bites (Israel is an apartheid state, Israel is committing genocide, Israel is a creation of postmodernism etc, etc).
This teacher not only seems like a great teacher but he seems like a very calming intellectual cool dude. We definitely need more teachers like him.
This was how my teachers were like when I was in school back in the 70’s when did teachers stop doing this kind of teaching.
The late 70s
Teach them how to think, not what to think! I love this statement and have been saying this for years!!!
So someone taught you to think that and you keep repeating it. How thoughtful.
@@highroller-jq3ix What crawled up your ass? No one taught me to think that...that is something I have been thinking on my own for a long time. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit your agenda.
Wow, that was great. Thank you God for this man.
Patrick, what has yourCockLover god done lately? Patty, why does yourCumGuzzler god burn nonbelievers in his hell? Patty, why do you worship the a$$FCKR in the sky?
Thanks Piers for sharing an uplifting and positive story that shows there are still truly good teachers out there, quietly winning.
What a smart likeable chap. Is there hope?
Yes
It's up to all of us not to lose hope.
I transitioned 22 years ago, and I don’t think Rowling is transphobic. I also always respect her for being a broke single mom, who made herself totally financially stable.
And if you meet someone who responds to a reasonable question about their beliefs with gaslighting, that's a big red flag.
What is important is that Rowling is no bigot. The bigots are the people attacking her and calling her a bigot.
This teacher is exceptionally important.
Well done for that teacher, we need more like him. That said I’m surprised the job thought police hasn’t tried getting him fired yet
I expect a teacher to focus on genuine literature and not fantasy works meant to entertain the minds of eight-year-olds.
A teacher of teens using a book written for teens to teach teens. Who'd have thunk....
@@kyletruchard5872 Teens? That’s a very low bar, my friend. That series is meant for ages far younger. At least attempt to care about literacy.
@@matt-30- Says the guy calling out a teacher for a singular book he uses. You've no idea if HP is just the basic one he starts from and he goes to the typical, 'to kill a mockingbird' or 'of mice and men' You've no idea what he teaches. You saw HP, and you decided to be the glass half empty guy. The story follows kids going through school till they basically graduate. Yes its not a literary masterpiece but you don't need a book to be to teach things from it. You'd know that if you attempted to care at all and weren't just looking to be negative.
@@kyletruchard5872 Nah, I expect a curriculum to have standards. A children's book is not suitable for an English class for teens. Your moral platitudes are as simplistic as the fantasy makebelieve you defend. It's rather embarrassing.
@@matt-30- do you tip your fedora when you say those lines in the mirror? A platitude is a statement that's overused. Such as "money doesn't buy happiness." for someone so upset by literary classes you sure aren't doing them justice. You're annoyed by a teacher using one of the most widely known books of our time to teach a lesson. You're probably that kid that got annoyed in class because no one else read as fast as you did. Calm down there sparky and let the good teachers do their job. I realize this is your chance to feel you're contributing but it ain't working. Just put on the comfy sweats and go back to perusing RUclips recommendations.
Not only does this teacher *sound* like a young Keanu Reeves...his teaching method is like *John Wick* ...Cool, thoughtful, and dangerous with a school pencil ! 🙂
Where's the video? I'd like to watch the whole interaction with the student.
Bravo👏👏👏
Props to the student for admitting he's wrong.
That puts him at a level above most adults.
Let’s go….it should be that way. This is the teacher you want them to teach your children.
That isn't even a master-class, that is basic critical thinking 101.
The Barbie film wasn't a direct answer to this phenomenon. The intention was to encourage people to question and think deeper about the modern concept of feminity.
M'kay.
I thought it was about selling plastic dollies.
I thought it was promoting the I don't need men narrative but ok
@thomasanders you may be interested in Mary Harringtons review.
We're talking about critical thinking and you talk about the barbie movie...
Its funny how people in the comments are parading the teacher as an anti woke teacher. I guess the critical thinking part was lost on all of you.
My mother always challenged me like that. She never told me what to think about an issue, but she would get me to look at often unseen consequences of issues.
This is neutral reason not anti-woke. In several conservative states he is legally banned from having a similar exploration of issues related to race, religion, or gender or any conversation that could lead to kids feeling bad about the actions of their white relatives. They don’t want neutral reason, they just want the reciprocal form of indoctrination.
Wow you are a complete liberal retard, brain rot, for what reason do you have to “teach” men fcking each other to children, you sick fck.
Your entire family line is garbage but nobody ever brings it up it’s like you had nothing to do with it other than their stupid genes continuing, liberal FREAK.
Wow what a teacher, there is hope
Masculinity right there.
gotta be honest i dont know what is happening or what the teacher even did.
So that chopped up clip didn’t seem staged to anybody else?
Still have hope in humanity
If I don't have a "phobia" for not believing in your religion (because it isn't based on facts), why do I have a "phobia" for not believing in your gender identity (which is also not based on facts)??????
There is Hope..
Would be grateful if you could provide the link to the teacher-student vid, TY!
ruclips.net/video/zIPPpsJY39c/видео.htmlsi=9cdmnS5hxvfEZJw4
You can find it where I originally posted it on my channel
Critical thinking is important but what's more important is wisdom. Wisdom is the ultimate. Not too many people appreciate wisdom anymore and that's why so much insanity. Wisdom is for the young and old, and lack of wisdom is seen in the young and old.
However wisdom is gained through thought and experience. Wothout learning how to think, you won't become very wise very fast.
@@phantomstarlight1366No. Wisdom is spiritual. It comes from God. It's not experienced.
Be spefic, which God.
Last count theres 3000 odd of them.
They can't all be switched on
@jjm4633
Every school should introduce Critical Thinking and Debating lessons weekly, from the age they start to read.
Unfortunately I would suggest that this teacher is an exception.
Credit to the student as well for engaging with his teacher and not throwing his toys out of the pram!
What a charming Elf. :)))
Not u calling him an elf 🦦
Great teacher but also great student/kid to have humility to listen.
The Socratic method
"Keep up the great work. We need more teachers like you".