{"id":1630058,"date":"2022-09-01T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630058"},"modified":"2022-09-01T18:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T22:04:56","slug":"giving-kids-a-shield-and-sword-for-the-current-intellectual-battle-author-connor-boyack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/giving-kids-a-shield-and-sword-for-the-current-intellectual-battle-author-connor-boyack\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Kids a \u2018Shield and Sword\u2019 for the Current Intellectual Battle: Author Connor Boyack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgiving-kids-a-shield-and-sword-for-the-current-intellectual-battle-author-connor-boyack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630058&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-connor-boyack\">Connor Boyack<\/a> is the founder of the Libertas Institute and author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-tuttle-twins\">Tuttle Twins<\/a> children\u2019s books, which have sold 4 million copies. He recently released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tuttletwins.com\/history\/\">America\u2019s History,<\/a>\u201d a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-tuttle-twins\">Tuttle Twins<\/a> story-based textbook to counter the \u201csuperficial history\u201d taught by today\u2019s social studies textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Boyack\u2019s goal is to empower parents to equip their children with intellectual tools to evaluate ideas: to recognize ideas that are based on truth, on goodness, and that will help society flourish.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s parents need to \u201cgive our kids a shield and a sword before we send them out into the intellectual battlefield, give them a foundation of these ideas,\u201d Boyack said\u00a0in an Aug. 27 interview with EpochTV\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/connor-boyack-how-to-empower-our-kids-against-marxist-thinking_4693385.html\">American Thought Leaders<\/a> program.\u00a0With that foundation, \u201cwhen they\u2019re listening to their teacher, or reading a textbook, or looking at TikTok, or wherever they\u2019re consuming information, they can evaluate those ideas, rather than just absorb them like a sponge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, remote computer-based learning revealed exactly what children were learning. Many parents began to feel they had placed too much trust in schools and in history textbooks that may not teach students how to properly evaluate and understand historical events.<\/p>\n<p>Boyack wants parents to take the lead in deciding what their children learn, whatever curriculum they decide to use. \u201cFor me, this is a mission in engaging parents to wake up and take charge of the education of their children, rather than delegating it to someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Beyond Names and Dates <\/p>\n<p>Speaking with American Thought Leaders host Jan Jekielek, Boyack said his history book aims to help parents feel confident about teaching their children U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have a generational handicap in a sense, where the schools for so long have been teaching this dumbed down civic illiteracy that they\u2019ve been conveying to kids. And now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Boyack is the founder of the Libertas Institute and author of the Tuttle Twins children\u2019s books, which have sold 4 million copies. He recently released \u201cAmerica\u2019s History,\u201d a new Tuttle Twins story-based textbook to counter the \u201csuperficial history\u201d taught by today\u2019s social studies textbooks. 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