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Getting the facts right doesn’t always lead to sound reasoning. Jacob Nestle explores how hidden assumptions shape the conclusions we reach and why students need to learn to recognize them.👇

Find the Hidden Premise — Lexandria Human beings leave things out when we communicate. Sometimes the same shorthand that saves us time in normal conversation can lead us astray. We can be wrong without ever understanding why.

Teachers, take a moment to pause and reflect. 🍎 What’s working, what could be simpler, and what are your students still curious about?

Use these questions to brainstorm with your students!

Sometimes the best way to understand your own beliefs is to seriously study the ideas that challenge them. Exploring different perspectives can sharpen our thinking, reveal what we’ve overlooked, and help us understand not just what we believe, but why.

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Lexandria Social studies for the 21st century and beyond

Can a society govern itself well if its citizens do not understand how government works?

What do you think de Tocqueville meant?

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Fiction can make the fantastical feel real and reality easier to recognize. Sometimes a monster, an invasion, or even a zombie apocalypse reveals more about power and social upheaval than a literal account ever could.

Peace, in Spinoza’s sense, is something we practice, not something that simply happens. It asks something of us: how we think, how we treat others, and what we choose to cultivate in ourselves.

Are we actually working more than people used to?

You may have seen the claim that medieval peasants worked only 150 days a year, while modern workers spend most of the year on the job. It makes for a compelling story about what we’ve lost to economic progress.

But we’re not counting the same things.

Those estimates often refer to the labor peasants owed to the lords whose land they occupied. They still had their own crops to grow, animals to tend, firewood and water to collect, food to preserve, bread to bake, cloth to make, and homes and tools to maintain.

A great deal of life was labor.

Today, much of that work has disappeared so completely from our lives that we hardly think about it.

That may be one of the easiest things to miss about economic progress: the better it works, the easier it is to forget what it replaced.

This Labor Day, it’s worth appreciating not only the work people do, but all the work we no longer have to do.

Medieval peasants really did not work only 150 days a year — Adam Smith Institute One of the things that irks my choler, yanks my goat if you like, is this idea that the medieval peasant led a life of incredible leisure, had to work vastly less than we poor saps ground down under capitalism have to. It's entirely nonsense of course : Plowing and harvesting were backbre

Should school prepare students more for:

👍 Work
❤️ Citizenship
😮 Life
☺️ All three equally

Vote below and tell us why.