The problem with education today isn’t that kids are thinking the wrong things. The problem is that they don’t really learn how to think at all.

This starts early in life when they’re tasked with simply regurgitating facts and figures, parroting their teachers’ talking points without question. In fact, questioning the narrative is, at a minimum, strongly discouraged if not outright forbidden. ...

Smith’s sin isn’t defending Rowling because, as Hot Air’s David Strom notes, he doesn’t actually do so. Not explicitly, anyway.

No, his sin is that he expects his students to think, to reason, to at least be prepared to defend why they hold a certain opinion. That’s not allowed in a world where teachers are admitting to trying to push leftist propaganda on students.