Teaching History to Children Is Like Teaching a Stone Instead of Bread

When we teach history, we are open to the danger of losing sight of the human being. We appeal to the whole human being by first visualizing the total as a whole and then proceeding to the parts that make it up. If we count merely by placing one object next to another and then adding them up, we eliminate the wholeness of being human. In a truly beneficial education, we must give everything its proper place. Plants must be studied in connection with the earth, and the various animal species in connection with human kind. Whenever the subject, the concrete human element must be retained.