Mike Pesca

We kind of fight China a little bit during the Korean War.

There's some normalization with then Chao Ping, yada, yada, yada.

Then there's the Olympics.

We don't really teach the history of China and Asia in general.

And yet I could argue the 21st, you know, if the 20th century was all about sort of the re, it was all about sort of the, I guess you could call it the de-empiring of Europe, right?

Right.

Europe was sort of nothing but a series of of sort of of empires trying to control it in some form or another.

And the 20th century was sort of an attempt to put an end to that.

Right.

And it's sort of and it did.

I think the 21st century is going to be all about sort of reshaping the power structures in Asia.

And yet our education system does very little in making sure we're fairly informed about the history.

Of Asian civilizations, of Asian governments, China in particular.

So, yeah, we need to think about our history curriculums should be tied to active current events, right?

you know, sort of within a 10-year period in order, because frankly, if students, I know I got more animated about something if I learned something and then I saw something related to it in the paper or you related to it in the current events, it actually sunk in more.

So it would just be better teaching.

Look, the best teachers figure this out.

You know, I remember having a great government teacher who did this really well.

But the best teachers figure figure that out.

All right.