Warren Smith is a teacher, filmmaker, and founder of the YouTube channel Secret Scholar Society. He went viral for a classroom video in which he challenged a student to explain why J.K. Rowling is a “bigot,” sparking widespread debate on free speech and critical thinking. He was later fired from his teaching job in Massachusetts amid backlash over his online content critiquing wokeness and campus culture. He now writes for The Free Press on race, public policy, and applied ethics, advocating truth-seeking over postmodernism and identity politics.
Tomorrow, he is joining the team in New York to discuss the art of critical thinking, discourse in contemporary society, and the value of open debate.
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Warren, I adore you! YOU ask the right questions. I am a veteran of the education reform wars. All the good work I know I did before I retired ten years ago has been trashed. I saw it happening in real time. How do we reconfigure the entire education system to create more young thinkers like YOU?
Hi Warren. Given your time as a teacher, what is one vital change would you implement in North American high schools if you had the power to do so?