Placing Restrictions on Teachers

Tyson’s point here opens up a number of good questions.  How much liberty should teachers have in choosing the materials they present to their students? Is it OK for teachers to cite factual texts about the history of slavery in the U.S., or should states like Florida be at liberty to ban discussion of “critical race theory?”

Perhaps the larger point, and it’s one that Western Civilization should celebrate, is that at least we had our Age of Reason, aka, the Enlightenment, where we realized that we needed a separation between church and state. Consider the theocracies of the Middle East, for example, where teachers would be immediately removed for encouraging critical thinking when it comes to Islam.