I always hated the study of civics. Yet I was always of that breed disdained as “super-patriot.”
It took me decades and decades and decades to find an American History book I could love — and it was written by a Brit. The book is Paul Johnson’s A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Great book!!!
Geography? i think a jigsaw puzzle with the capitals of the states is the best way to teach geography. Cheaper than what they say: War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
And it’s lazy to blame schools, public or private. Parents who attempt to teach children or grown-ups who just enjoy learning new things can educate themselves at any age and using the excuse of “they didn’t teach me that in school” demonstrates that you are a lazy fool.
As a former high-school drop-outl college drop-out, graduate school drop-out, I know that the very best education is self-education and all of us have a great resource known as C-Span 1 and 2 that can make the subjects of American History, Political Science, and Economics or that bastard subject Civics absolutely fascinating.
If you know how to read, what do you need school for?
