Hey everyone, we're doing something a little different for the next few weeks.

We've been thinking a lot about what history is taught in school and how it's taught in school.

Yeah, it's one of the reasons this show exists. We wanted to fill in the gaps of what we learned

in history class and reframe some of the history we did learn.

So a few months ago, we started asking teachers for some of their favorite

online episodes that do just that and that they'd like their students to hear before returning to school.

Our hope was that through line was abuse and we heard from many teachers who said that it was.

This week, I'm going to show on Ryan and I used the through line episode the commentator in an

introduction to accent research at the inquiry class at Smith's. The commentator tells the story

of a medieval Islamic philosopher, a veriless who put his pen to paper and shaped the modern world.

And your story on a veriless provided opportunities to make connections between what a veriless was doing

in the pulse entry and what happened in the research you do today.

The whole of this course, just like your podcast, is for students to understand that our current reality is shaped

by the past and those that came before us. Many of the issues and challenges faced by previous

generations are very similar to what we're experiencing. This was a really good show.

Hope to use more of your episodes in future classes that you should write. Thank you.

Hey, I'm Ram Dabdi Fattah. I'm Ramtiin Arablui and on this episode, how one medieval Islamic

philosopher put his pen to paper and shaped the modern world.

As a kid growing up here in the US, I heard the same general story you probably did about the

history of Western civilization. First, there was Greece where they invented democracy and philosophy.

Then came the Roman Empire until it eventually fell and Europe went into the dark ages.

Until the Renaissance, when people like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo basically painted and

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