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At the top of the list we would have to give the suggestion of having many after school programs as suggested in "Children, Arts, and Du Bois" by Kieth Gilurd at the top of the list. At the beginning of the article it is explained how Kieth went to a school to observe the after school program, you learn the story of a child that gets interested in a poet that Kieth brings up. Then you learn that the program will be cut, and like Kieth suggests the children will loose their new interests and begin to fail. Think about all of the new ideas and learning opportunities  that will be given to children if they are able to find their interests in a after school program. The child mentioned in the article only finds out about De Bois only because of the after school program, and with the turn of a pen all of the potential knowledge that that child could have learned about poetry is taken away from them only to save some money. The more frightening thing is that after school programs all over the country are getting cut and more knowledge is being forcibly taken form children. Next on the list is from Bell hooks article "Teaching critical thinking". in this article it is explained how critical thinking is not being taught at schools to young children at a young age and the repercussions of this, those repercussions being that children loose their wanting to think for themselves and loose the ability to think critically which could solve the problems of  children. Being able to think is a great tool, it helps children to grow up to want to think and actually use their brains instead of being pack mules where knowledge is forcibly piled on them and they are expected to keep it forever. Through the processes of not teaching critical thinking children loose the wanting to think and those loose the potential to learn on their own.