What are these “facts” that we’re supposed to teach? Most “facts” are established within an interpretive framework. I teach history, among other things, and establishing the “facts” of history is no easy project. Most of the interesting things to say about history are not clearly “facts” in any very direct sense. What was the cause of the American Civil War? Just the facts, please.
Judgment is also an essential aspect of education. Judgment has a relationship to “facts”, but it’s not limited to “facts”. So whenever I see a call for education to be limited to the “facts”, I suspect the speaker’s own education has a certain limitation.
What are these “facts” that we’re supposed to teach? Most “facts” are established within an interpretive framework. I teach history, among other things, and establishing the “facts” of history is no easy project. Most of the interesting things to say about history are not clearly “facts” in any very direct sense. What was the cause of the American Civil War? Just the facts, please.
Judgment is also an essential aspect of education. Judgment has a relationship to “facts”, but it’s not limited to “facts”. So whenever I see a call for education to be limited to the “facts”, I suspect the speaker’s own education has a certain limitation.