19th century solutions won’t solve modern problems
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English - April 05, 2021 06:00 - 15 minutes - 13.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsEducation Science education science teacher art college consulting educator educators humanities philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Math and science illiteracy will always exist (albeit to a lesser degree thanks to the STEM movement). But what about historical illiteracy?
How many have you all heard that these are some of the worst times, on and on?!
You’ve probably heard that history repeats itself. Let’s be honest....history doesn’t repeat itself. What does repeat itself are attitudes towards current events.
Today Stew Barr, on a solo episode, investigates June 1940 vs. June 2020.
Let’s take a trip back to post-Great Depression America.
By tuning into this episode, we hope to turn our perspective towards the strides we’ve made to get to the modern world and how historical illiteracy impacts our attitudes moving forward.
Our 19th century solutions won’t solve 20th century problems! Our new problems are equal distribution of the wealth and resources we have.
The historical solution is a model for us to look at, but it may not be the one you need today. Those who constantly look backwards will eventually think backwards.