tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539359.post4613232506505863933..comments2023-10-24T10:06:05.391-05:00Comments on Instructivist: History is knowable, teachable and testableInstructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652458042291988959noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539359.post-38826210549251176812007-04-03T00:03:00.000-05:002007-04-03T00:03:00.000-05:00Remove the politics from this dispute and it might...Remove the politics from this dispute and it might more easily be resolved.<BR/><BR/>Does one need to label things as objective fact if one has accurate sources to which one can attribute claims?<BR/><BR/>I have witnessed a kind of perceptual schizophrenia among high school students. Having believed everything they read and were told about history in school they become skepitcal and then begin to disbelieve everything they read or are told.<BR/><BR/>Both of these extremes -- blind faith and blind disbelief -- are, of course, forms of ignorance.<BR/><BR/>Teach students historical claims and who made them and teach them how to evaluate the validity of those claims.<BR/><BR/>Of course, then we might have an informed and insightful electorate.<BR/><BR/>Do lawmakers in Florida or anywhere else really want that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com