Sep 25, 2020
Covid-19 has thrown education into array. And the New York Times ‘1619 Project, that portrays America as an inherently racist country, is being promoted as a school curricula beginning in elementary school. With all this turmoil, E.D. Hirsch, professor emeritus in education and humanities at the University of Virginia, asserts that much of the turmoil is an outcome of the switch in the philosophy of teaching children from shared-knowledge teaching to child-centered teaching in the twentieth century, resulting in a precipitous decline in reading and SAT scores. In this podcast the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles investigates Dr. Hirsch’s claim that a return to shared-knowledge learning would not only raise reading scores, but that it would help to unify a fractured nation.