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Hi Kid: Does Critical Thinking Mean What You Think It Means?

Featuring: Awaken Your Critical Consciousness, Amazing America, & Foundational Poetry

September 07, 2024

LET’S TALK ABOUT IT…
What Does It Mean to ‘Think Critically’?

Get to know this fellow.

Do you know who this man is?

If not, you should.

He is influencing your children.

To properly understand today’s schools, you must know a man by the name of Paolo Freire. Freire is the most significant figure in American education int he past 50 years and he is cited in academic papers more often than Einstein. He has been described as a titan of the education industry and is internationally recognized and celebrated. Freire was a Brazilian Marxist who was brought to the United States via Harvard University in the 1980s and has been a pillar of American education ever since. His educational philosophy has been taught to teachers and administrators through education colleges for decades. Freire’s education methods influence how your kids are taught in Poudre School District and Thompson School District right now.

To not know Freire is not to know anything about what’s happening in schools today.

-Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child, pg. 76

So what is Freire’s philosophy on education and can it really be tied to your neighborhood school and local district?

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