Stretched to the max by hostile critics these days, many public school teachers—K-12—may not realize they are expected by other critics to be successors of those who risked lives or careers teaching critical thinking in their subject fields: Socrates was forced to drink hemlock in 399 BCE when Athens’ ruling class found him guilty of More

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