tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543355.post116883561726304603..comments2023-11-15T17:55:18.051-05:00Comments on MarkDaniels.Blogspot.com: It doesn't surprise me...Mark Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18205344762960756655noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543355.post-1168907589734820582007-01-15T19:33:00.000-05:002007-01-15T19:33:00.000-05:00Richard:First of all, thanks for writing! My guess...Richard:<BR/>First of all, thanks for writing! <BR/><BR/>My guess is that part of the reason there's so little appreciation of King or others is that there is little attempt in Social Studies Education to provide any context for the events or figures they teach about. Information without context isn't particularly compelling or memorable.<BR/><BR/>God bless you, my friend.<BR/><BR/>MarkMark Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18205344762960756655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543355.post-1168906577816442082007-01-15T19:16:00.000-05:002007-01-15T19:16:00.000-05:00What makes young people's ignorance about Dr. King...What makes young people's ignorance about Dr. King even more appalling is that he's probably spoken of more frequently in schools than any other American. His life story, and especially his "I Have a Dream" speech, are endlessly trotted forth not only in social studies curricula but in language arts curricula as well (I'm an education writer in lang arts) whenever an example of the civil rights movement, or of moral heroism in general, or of rhetorical skill, is needed. I remember, when my grown kids were in elementary school, asking them who were the greatest Americans. They immediately said, Martin Luther King and Harriet Tubman. (Nowadays they might have named Rosa Parks instead of Tubman.) There is no lack of attempts by our educational system to teach children to honor the civil rights movement, and King is far and away its icon in mainstream pedagogy. My sons named the historical figures they had heard the most glowing things about, the most often. If kids don't know about King, what *do* they know about?Richard Lawrence Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951947957345891398noreply@blogger.com