Standing for Crucial Considering and Progress
by Terrell Heick
At TeachThought, we’ve got all the time targeted on selling vital pondering cross to be used in ‘human’ functions–particularly, individuals (i.e., schooling stakeholders) and locations (i.e., communities).
Our mission has been apolitical by design—centered on enhancing thought, schooling, and human potential with out aligning with political ideologies or factions.
Nevertheless, latest occasions in america have made remaining completely apolitical a luxurious we are able to not afford.
The Thought of Liberalism in Schooling
This brings us to the concept of liberalism.
To be clear, ‘liberalism,’ isn’t ‘Democratic occasion as we use the time period. Fairly, it’s supposed for philosophical, apolitical that means: a dedication to cause, freedom, equality, variety, and the assumption within the potential for progress.
Liberalism, on this sense, prioritizes open-mindedness and values dialogue, inquiry, and self-determination—all inherently central to schooling itself.
Schooling seeks to empower people, enabling them to suppose critically, embrace studying, and higher themselves and their communities.
These are liberal beliefs—not in a partisan context however as mental rules foundational to data, democracy, and justice.
Why Take A ‘Stance’ At All?
It’s not possible to champion vital pondering whereas staying silent about efforts to suppress particular person thought, scale back variety, dismantle vital federal departments, and resist the very progress schooling goals to maintain.
The present circumstances demand resistance to insurance policies that undermine civil liberties, problem inclusivity, and threaten the foundations of schooling itself.
A Name for Crucial Considering
I/we oppose measures that limit inquiry, diminish variety, and compromise the integrity of schooling.
As a corporation, we try to advertise and advocate for:
Crucial Considering: The flexibility to query, analyze, and synthesize data within the face of rising misinformation and partisanship.
Variety (Cultural and Mental): A recognition that inclusivity enriches studying, creativity, and group understanding.
That these concepts could be in any respect controversial would possibly converse to the necessity for them to be advocated for and supported.
In more and more technologically superior and socially fractured instances, the function of vital pondering is–nicely, vital.
Points just like the misuse of social media, politicized partisanship, and dwindling help for public schooling require a response rooted in rationality, proof, and humane values.
Our Place
Whereas we stay a corporation targeted on schooling, our dedication to vital pondering calls us to talk in opposition to the circumstances eroding belief, inclusivity, and progress.
From the deliberate weakening of federal establishments to selections that restrict variety and suppress entry to alternative, we stand firmly in opposition to such measures.
The present administration’s insurance policies in america signify a very pressing menace to those important values, and I personally am compelled to oppose them as a part of broader advocacy for schooling and knowledgeable, rational discourse.
Whatever the circumstance or context, our objective will emphasize the facility–and necessity– of vital pondering in navigating the challenges of our time whereas sustaining respect for various voices, experiences, and beliefs.
Terrell Heick
Director, TeachThought
