Its hard to answer if we should change how we teach about the founders you provide no context for how its being taught now. If one were judging from how kids are turning out and the media, we currently denigrate the founders, focus on their flaws, ignore anything good they did, and crap all over the country that was built while claiming others 'actually' built it. So if thats what we are currently teaching, then yes it should change.
If we are teaching about them the way we traditionally do, they we are doing a very poor good and it should also change. But unless you provide details on HOW it would or should change, the question is a bit meaningless.
Sure, many of the Founders were slave owners, smugglers and ambitious for honors and high office. They became desperate for independence and liberty only after the Seven Year War ended the need for the Red-Coats to guard against the French and Indian danger from Canada. George’s governance of the 13 Colonies, in the overall, was gentle and benign. Trump could never have written a document as elegant and inspiring as the Declaration of Independence, but its lies and exaggerates were certainly in his league. Canada, never broke from England. Its Founders never produced rhetoric as courageous and high minded as ours. Still, somehow it managed to become as free and independent a Republic as ours and as honest a democracy.
Still, pride in our Constitution and Founding Fathers seems to me far preferable to the cynical and bitter contempt that has become fashionable.
Revered historian Joseph Ellis, now unfortunately deceased, completed and published his final work, "The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding," in 2025. He describes and analyzes the founders' failure to end both slavery and the theft of Native Americans' land. It's a book very relevant to the question being considered.
Yes, we know so much more about the "founders"; both their personal and political lives and contributions. Age-appropriate, accurate history must be part of sustainable education.
Its hard to answer if we should change how we teach about the founders you provide no context for how its being taught now. If one were judging from how kids are turning out and the media, we currently denigrate the founders, focus on their flaws, ignore anything good they did, and crap all over the country that was built while claiming others 'actually' built it. So if thats what we are currently teaching, then yes it should change.
If we are teaching about them the way we traditionally do, they we are doing a very poor good and it should also change. But unless you provide details on HOW it would or should change, the question is a bit meaningless.
Sure, many of the Founders were slave owners, smugglers and ambitious for honors and high office. They became desperate for independence and liberty only after the Seven Year War ended the need for the Red-Coats to guard against the French and Indian danger from Canada. George’s governance of the 13 Colonies, in the overall, was gentle and benign. Trump could never have written a document as elegant and inspiring as the Declaration of Independence, but its lies and exaggerates were certainly in his league. Canada, never broke from England. Its Founders never produced rhetoric as courageous and high minded as ours. Still, somehow it managed to become as free and independent a Republic as ours and as honest a democracy.
Still, pride in our Constitution and Founding Fathers seems to me far preferable to the cynical and bitter contempt that has become fashionable.
Revered historian Joseph Ellis, now unfortunately deceased, completed and published his final work, "The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding," in 2025. He describes and analyzes the founders' failure to end both slavery and the theft of Native Americans' land. It's a book very relevant to the question being considered.
Yes, we know so much more about the "founders"; both their personal and political lives and contributions. Age-appropriate, accurate history must be part of sustainable education.