History and Mondo Dolls

Find out what children like, as well as giving them what you like, in teaching history.

The trays on tables with layouts on them need not be only the sort of representations that the children can make themselves.

Giving them drama that is history from existing plays or made up by themselves.  Some classes will like this, others will not and should not have more forced  upon them.

In other subjects, find out the sorts of things that children like, not just what they ought to like.  In Art, for example, don’t give them child-like drawings – they can make them themselves and they are so alike they are boring. Give them the Art of the ages, even when the children are small.  Arthur Mee knew about this, in his Encyclopedias. He catered for the bright children, but gave an entry for all children, including to great art.

The moving images that children find online are remarkable and something children did not have in the past to study all sorts of subjects.  Good.

But we are so taken up with giving children laptops and apps that we can forget that children can like the three-dimensional world they live in even more, when they are given the chance.