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Restating the Obvious: A review of How to Educate a Citizen

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Peter Watt

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 Restating the Obvious: A review of How to Educate a Citizen by Abby W. Schachter, @ABBYSCHACHTER INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES Parents have their best opportunity in decades to see behind the curtain of what has been happening at their kids’ … Continue reading →

Posted in A review of How to Educate a [Good] Citizen | Tagged ‘We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.’”, Classrooms should be child-centric, It was replaced by the notion that children could learn best by fostering an open - “natural” environment - where kids decide what they are interested in learning., The bad news is that a different idea took over from this conception of children as blank slates, the Founders adopted the Enlightenment idea that a child’s mind starts out as a blank slate onto which parents - community - and society can imprint the basics of identity, We need shared literacy- shared knowledge-and common knowledge to have a properly functioning and maximally inclusive society. | Leave a comment