Teaching Kids How to Learn from the Past
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🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Kader Daily Podcast for Tuesday, August 22nd, |
| 0:06.3 | 2023. I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:08.6 | How young people learn history and importantly what they learn about history is a matter of great debate right now |
| 0:15.1 | Connor Boyac with the Labertus Institute in Utah is co-author of a new set of books |
| 0:19.6 | on history for young people America's history. |
| 0:23.0 | We discussed the fight over teaching history to young people today |
| 0:27.0 | and what leads some people to view history not through a lens of |
| 0:30.0 | liberty or mere facts, |
| 0:32.0 | but through a lens of contemporary politics. of |
| 0:33.0 | contemporary politics and why they might fear acknowledging truths about the lived |
| 0:38.0 | experiences of Americans past. |
| 0:40.0 | So Caleb, I think part of the problem here is that we've been teaching kids history in exactly the wrong way |
| 0:46.7 | A couple years ago our team opened up a whole bunch of social studies books that are being used in most of the schools, kind of like fifth to |
| 0:54.7 | eighth grade roughly and what we found in all these textbooks was they were |
| 0:58.2 | chock full of interesting tidbits right like hey on this date this |
| 1:02.1 | happened this guy wrote a on this date, this happened, this |
| 1:02.8 | guy wrote a letter to this person, this happened, and so forth. But |
| 1:06.2 | none of these books talked about conceptual, like values, ideas, |
| 1:10.1 | philosophies. You're probably familiar with this quote, |
| 1:13.1 | those who don't learn from the past |
| 1:14.6 | are condemned to repeat it. |
| 1:16.3 | The problem is that these books are not teaching kids |
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