(Making a few quick notes to expound upon later.)
We were at "Freedom to Read 2024: The Right to Respect with John Ibbitson" talk hosted by OPL last night (https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/freedom-read-2024-right-respect-john-ibbitson)
He gave an excellent talk. I liked his use as a term "Respect". Respect to the reader or writer in the sense of respecting readers ability to contextualize and respect to the writer by not bowdlerizing or censoring.
He did use the problematic (Oliver Wendell Holmes) "Marketplace of ideas". I liked how Jason Stanley phrased it, but to paraphrase marketplace of ideas only works when people are rational. Bernays has something to say about that. Ibbitson suggested we needed more history education in school. I would counter with we need more critical thinking taught in schools. Unless critical thinking is taught alongside history we will be doomed to repeat.
#CrticalThinking #Propagada #Freedomtoread #History #Education
