Brian Bolduc at The Wall Street Journal has an interesting interview with David McCullough. Mr. McCullough argues that U. S. students' poor understanding of history can be traced to several causes. At the top of his list is poor teaching. He says:
One problem is personnel. "People who come out of college with a degree in education and not a degree in a subject are severely handicapped in their capacity to teach effectively," Mr. McCullough argues. "Because they're often assigned to teach subjects about which they know little or nothing." The great teachers love what they're teaching, he says, and "you can't love something you don't know anymore than you can love someone you don't know."
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