Mike Pesca

But so that, OK, the Middle East is in the news.

Let's teach history of the Middle East to understand that.

Right.

And it seems like a simple thing to do.

Here's the context and we go.

But that's really what's missing in our curriculum.

We probably would be in this.

And I think this is what's look, the the politicizing of of.

of education curriculums, particularly in middle schools and high schools, is a real problem when everybody wants their point of view reinforced in how history is taught, rather than just getting people more knowledgeable.

I mean, when you look at how many times we've been drawn into a hot conflict in the Middle East and how little

In high school, we spend in history classes teaching how World War I created this mess and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

It seems to be kind of messed up when...

We, you know, today's 16 and 17 year olds may end up fighting a war in the Middle East, may end up fighting a war in China.

What do we teach about Taiwan?

What do we teach about the rise of communist China?

You know, we're terrible.

You want to talk about, you know, I complain about our lack of how we just gloss over World War I and just teach it through the prism of World War II.

What kind of, think about your own, for those of you, ask yourself how well you feel like you were educated about China, say, pre-Mao.

And even then, we do a little bit of Mao, but it's really quickly.

There's Nixon goes to China, yada, yada, yada.