In this article, the author uses speculative essay to take up the metaphor of the blank canvas and critique it as part of a majoritarian narrative in educational research. To do this, the author applies the work of Sylvia Wynter (1992, 2003, 2020) and others on the creation of Knowledge and Man in terms of how canonical educational research discourse dehumanizes people, removing these stories in how we learn about, teach, and do "research" in education. Asking questions about how the curriculum theorizes and constructs humanity particularly in the United States of America is not new (cf. Schubert, 1989). As a teacher, researcher, and life-long student, the author aims to turn these questions toward the curriculum of educational research.