“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”
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.
