{"id":343,"date":"2024-05-12T16:50:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/?p=343"},"modified":"2024-05-12T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:50:59","slug":"teaching-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"TFA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>An essay on teaching History in our times, germinating handwritten in the pages of a Moleskine journal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early in May we flew to Oklahoma via DFW for the wedding of Grandson No. 1, and I occupied myself on the flight down pencil-scribbling some ideas I had been carrying around for a while. Awakening early the next morning in Purcell, Oklahoma, I poured come coffee and picked up where I had left off, until I had filled eight pages. Then we were off to be occupied with family events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realized before quitting, though, that an essay was germinating in my old-man hand on paper, which I gave a title, &#8220;Teaching for America in the Twenty-First Century.&#8221; At age 72 I am in the middle of a rehab of my teaching program aimed at staying current and, more important, responding to changing times and changing students. This is because, well, things are changing, and I plan to be around for quite some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I have written so far is a lament, possibly even a jeremiad, about how we got into the cultural, political, and intellectual mess we are in. So it&#8217;s all gloom and doom so far, but it will not be so as I pick up the thread and carry it on this summer. I will get around to what I&#8217;m going to do, I think, which others may wish to emulate, or not. I do hope others may be moved to think, as I have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I post here those <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/19VX6HwvlbYBSHVan8SCUwrfS8naK6rx_rwStaoL2BdY\/edit?usp=sharing\">eight handwritten pages<\/a>, direct from my journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay on teaching History in our times, germinating handwritten in the pages of a Moleskine journal Early in May we flew to Oklahoma via DFW for the wedding of Grandson No. 1, and I occupied myself on the flight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyrfd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}