{"id":1724,"date":"2009-09-24T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2009-09-24T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:17:21","slug":"students-can-study-more-than-one-subject-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Students can study more than one subject at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The future of our nation and world depend on our citizens&#8217; understanding of <em>both<\/em> how they interact with each other <i>and<\/i> how they interact with the natural world [emphasis added].<br \/>&#8211;FSU physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/24\/a-four-science-course-requirement-for-bright-futures-eligibility-%E2%80%93-the-obvious-next-step\/\">Paul Cottle<\/a>, responding to a critic who thinks we should be more worried about civics knowledge<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an historian, I agree with Cottle. I want my fellow citizens to have some grounding in more than one subject. I want my neighbors to know that <a href=\"http:\/\/muller.lbl.gov\/teaching\/Physics10\/PffP.html\">a cookie contains more energy than an equivalent mass of TNT<\/a>. And I want my neighbors to understand that Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses were the plaintiffs in the landmark 1943 case striking down a West Virginia law that mandated students say the pledge of allegiance. And I want them to have those small bits as part of a larger context from each discipline. I think it&#8217;s possible to hold ideas in one&#8217;s head from more than one discipline. More than possible: necessary. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, no one has yet taught high school students &#8212; or college professors &#8212; how to answer 80 e-mails in five minutes, which is why I now need to turn to my inbox instead of blogging about anything in depth. 134 e-mails. Yikes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of our nation and world depend on our citizens&#8217; understanding of both how they interact with each other and how they interact with the natural world [emphasis added].&#8211;FSU physicist Paul Cottle, responding to a critic who thinks we should be more worried about civics knowledge As an historian, I agree with Cottle. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-rO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}