What History Class?
During the past decade or so, educational policy and practice appear to have focused more and more upon developing the worker at the expense of developing the citizen.
Charles N. Quigley
The NYT ran a piece lamenting the declining test scores of American students regarding their basic civics education. It appears that our students are not learning the core components of American society. But we no longer teach civics, or history for that matter. The majority of students do not know what “history” is. Rather, educators are instructed to teach them “social studies.”
Now they ask why our students do not know the science (by which I mean a body of knowledge) of their own nation. Crisis, yes. Shock, no.
Buck Holler
Buck Holler is a former horse trainer and rodeo cowboy from Red Bluff, CA. Retiring from the rodeo circuit, Buck headed to New England to study theology and languages at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2001. Since then he has worked as an educator and administrator in CA, New York City, and eastern NC. Buck first joined The CiRCE Institute as an apprentice in 2007, became a head mentor for the East Coast III apprenticeship in 2017, began the Latin Apprenticeship in 2019, and now serves in Concord, NC as CiRCE’s director of consulting.
