The purpose of elementary and high school education is to teach enough facts to have a basis to reason over, and the skills to reason about those facts. To present the findings of centuries of research and understanding, literature, philosophy.
To supplant that with "modern history" and gender "theories" and unproved climate theories is just irresponsible, esp. when the kids are NOT learning the truths of centuries, nor how to critically evaluate and reason! Over the facts that they are not being taught!
They taught not only the classics, but the Latin language in the public schools at least through the 40s. Sauce: inherited text books.
The purpose of elementary and high school education is to teach enough facts to have a basis to reason over, and the skills to reason about those facts. To present the findings of centuries of research and understanding, literature, philosophy.
To supplant that with "modern history" and gender "theories" and unproved climate theories is just irresponsible, esp. when the kids are NOT learning the truths of centuries, nor how to critically evaluate and reason! Over the facts that they are not being taught!
They taught not only the classics, but the Latin language in the public schools at least through the 40s. Sauce: inherited text books.