This study suggests an alternative understanding about animistic thinking in view of post-humanism. This study reconsider whether an animistic thinking, which is a characteristic of a premature thought that must be “eliminated” from the human development stages or it needs to be respected and preserved. For this purpose, we examined previous animistic thinking researches with an education trend. Based on the results of this study, animistic thinking is not a characteristic of ‘pre-operational stage’, but it is worth needing to be supported and respected for the co-existence of living and non-living things. This study presents an alternative understanding of animistic thinking in the view of post-humanism, and it has the academic significance in that it broadens the horizon of the new understanding of animistic thinking. Furthermore, this study expects people to look back on the education in the view of ‘human/child- centered’ which is significant in post-modernism eras, and we want this study to act as catalyst to consider human/child-respected education.