Sydney Chaffee : How teachers can help kids find their political voices

Sydney Chaffee at TEDxBeaconStreet  (transcript)
How teachers can help kids find their political voices
Summary
This is a story that makes me think about our Japanese education. It's a really bold talk like teachers might lose their job if they tell students those in Japan.

The speaker declares that school must not be a place where a teacher teaches his/her subject and in school, teaching will always be a political act. It's because school has to be about teaching people to change the world for the better, has its chances and practices. Especially history, understanding history for students is not a subject that a teacher teaches statically and objectively.

History is ongoing and connected to current movements for justice. Understanding history is to realize that there are countless interpretations and it leads to having powers that problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, perseverance and so on.

A teacher has to be a person to teach those and help students learn those.

Students will be adults who create their own history is a great thing. They live in their countries where they create themselves, not where ancestors made.

Words in this story
relevant /adj/ closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand. important?
intertwine /verb/ twist or twine together.
assumption /noun/ hypothesis, supposition