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Dec 31, 2019 43 min

Why Teach Fiction?

from Backporch Education Podcast

It seems we live in a utilitarian or practical time when education wants to cut straight to the “facts.” So why spend so much time in school learning about things that are just made up? Jason and Steve defend the use of fiction in the classroom as one of the great moral tools in the cultivation of wisdom and virtue.

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