Not Teaching Civic Education Is Suicide
While best known as the lead actor in movies like Jaws and Mr. Holland’s Opus, Richard Dreyfuss has been working to improve civic education for well over a decade. And we’re not talking just TV interviews here… Dreyfuss has founded an entire foundation that aims to “revive the teaching of civics in American public education.”
We’re sharing Richard Dreyfuss’ video below because it speaks to a theme omnipresent in Civic Mirror: actively preserving and protecting democracy. In CM students are given hidden agendas and one of those agendas is fascist. Seemingly there’s not much democratic about this game element, but the students playing the fascist teach their classmates an important lesson: democracies are NOT god-given! Without civic education, how will the citizenry even know what to preserve and protect? And if they don’t know that, inevitably, their democracies will fail.
So to all our users, please take 5 minutes to watch this video and share it with as many people as you can. Civic education MUST improve!!
