Giving Kids a ‘Shield and Sword’ for the Current Intellectual Battle: Author Connor Boyack
Connor Boyack is the founder of the Libertas Institute and author of the Tuttle Twins children’s books, which have sold 4 million copies. He recently released “America’s History,” a new Tuttle Twins story-based textbook to counter the “superficial history” taught by today’s social studies textbooks.
Boyack’s goal is to empower parents to equip their children with intellectual tools to evaluate ideas: to recognize ideas that are based on truth, on goodness, and that will help society flourish.
Today’s parents need to “give our kids a shield and a sword before we send them out into the intellectual battlefield, give them a foundation of these ideas,” Boyack said in an Aug. 27 interview with EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders program. With that foundation, “when they’re listening to their teacher, or reading a textbook, or looking at TikTok, or wherever they’re consuming information, they can evaluate those ideas, rather than just absorb them like a sponge.”…