In this powerful manifesto, the bestselling author of WHY KNOWLEDGE
MATTERS addresses the failures of America's early education system
and its impact on our current national malaise, advocating for a
shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taught-an
educational foundation that can help improve and strengthen
America's unity, identity, and democracy. In How to Educate a
Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty
years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging
America's public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to
educate our children more effectively to help heal and preserve the
nation. Since the 1960s, our schools have been relying on
"child-centered learning." History, geography, science, civics, and
other essential knowledge have been dumbed down by vacuous learning
"techniques" and "values-based" curricula; indoctrinated by
graduate schools of education, administrators and educators have
believed they are teaching reading and critical thinking skills.
Yet these cannot be taught in the absence of strong content, Hirsch
argues. The consequence is a loss of shared knowledge that would
enable us to work together, understand one another, and make
coherent, informed decisions. A broken approach to school not only
leaves our children under-prepared and erodes the American dream
but also loosens the spiritual bonds and unity that hold the nation
together. Drawing on early schoolmasters and educational reformers
such as Noah Webster and Horace Mann, Hirsch charts the rise and
fall of the American early education system and provides a
blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge,
communications, and allegiance. Critical and compelling, How to
Educate a Citizen galvanizes our schools to equip children with the
power of shared knowledge.
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