One Thought Scares Me...
eBook - ePub

One Thought Scares Me...

We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

One Thought Scares Me...

We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know

About this book

We've let the meaning of America be reduced to guesswork. It might not be too late. Our democratic republic is failing, and it shouldn't be a surprise. We can't fly a plane without training; we can't practice medicine without attending medical school. And yet we expect the American people to wield the full power of their citizenship, the product of the most revolutionary governmental thinking in human history, without any education. We no longer teach our children the Bill of Rights or Constitution. We don't teach the Enlightenment values that underpin them. We don't teach the critical thinking skills and mental agility necessary for our own sovereignty. We've stopped teaching civics, and now we can't have a civil political discussion. The American experiment may fail if we don't act. Richard Dreyfuss is a forceful advocate for civic education. His latest work, One Thought Scares Me…, explains how the lack of civics education in American education for the last fifty years has led to the deterioration of all aspects of the lives of us, the people. And it shows us the path to reclaiming our American ideals.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 A Spiral of Decay
  9. Chapter 2 Why Civics?
  10. Chapter 3 America Has Meaning
  11. Chapter 4 A Shared Foundation
  12. Chapter 5 The Few versus the Many
  13. Chapter 6 The Tudors
  14. Chapter 7 A Personal History
  15. Chapter 8 An Imperfect Miracle
  16. Chapter 9 The James Dean Generation
  17. Chapter 10 A Crumbling Foundation
  18. Chapter 11 Unfair Capitalism
  19. Chapter 12 A Word from de Tocqueville
  20. Chapter 13 Technology Overload
  21. Chapter 14 A Civics Initiative
  22. Chapter 15 Teaching Active Citizenship
  23. Chapter 16 The Return to Senselessness
  24. Chapter 17 Toward a Healthy Democracy
  25. Chapter 18 Common Sense
  26. Chapter 19 A Call to Action
  27. Conclusion
  28. About the Author
  29. Acknowledgments