» “We have found that professors of education downplay and dismiss, or are dismissive of, the importance of facts, knowing facts, of knowing dates, of knowing geography”

Terry Ryan:

I’ll never forget what one professor said to me: “I don’t need for them to know that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. I need for them to understand the impact on the indigenous people.” So that’s a bit ideological too. But the important thing is, as you shared with me the other day, one out of six Americans cannot name a branch of government. There’s a reason why the teachers are not teaching it, because to them, you could always just look it up.