CULTURE

Teaching Kids To Fish

Teaching children is not about rote learning, it’s about learning to be curious about the world

David Todd McCarty
Published in
7 min readJun 3, 2022

--

Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash

You’ve seen the memes on social media, extolling the virtues of teaching life skills to kids in public schools. Stuff like how to balance a checkbook, file your taxes, or fold a fitted sheet. Presumably, these are the same people…

--

--

David Todd McCarty
Age of Empathy

A cranky romantic searching for hope and humor. I tell stories. Most of them are true. I’m not at all interested in your outrage, but I do feel your pain.