WE TEACH NOTHING, WE KNOW NOTHING - AND THAT COULD COST THE UNITED STATES
EVERYTHING
By Bryan Preston
_Originally Published on PJ Media [1]_
A couple of years ago, a retired teacher who stays in close touch with
history teachers across Texas told me something disturbing. Like most
states, Texas has standardized testing. Unlike most states, Texas requires
public school students to study Texas history in the 4th and 7th grades.
Texas history is red in tooth and claw and full of big personalities and
big ideas. Standardized testing is forcing teachers to drop about half of
the second semester of Texas history to focus on U.S. history -- not to
deepen students' understanding of American history, but to teach to the
standardized tests.
This, according to my friend, shortchanges students from learning about key
parts of Texas history. Teaching to the test is shallow. Add in that
history teaching is being watered down overall across our public education
system, and we have a problem.
That problem was exposed, unintentionally, by an Obama administration
official.
Far be it from me to agree with an Obama acolyte, but Ben Rhodes infamously
said, "They literally know nothing" about the journalists he manipulated to
sell the awful Iran nuclear deal. This, he said, made it easy to sell that
deal. He was a liberal, most journalists are default liberal, so they
believed whatever he told them. Lack of knowledge makes a whole lot of
things easier for crafty people.
He wasn't wrong. And he wasn't just talking about journalists. Most people
literally know nothing about history. And along with losing foundations in
history, public schools no longer teach rhetoric or critical thinking. So
people don't know what they don't know, and don't know what that means.
CRACKING FOUNDATIONS
If Americans had solid foundations in our history, things like what's
happened to Thomas Jefferson wouldn't happen...
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