What the U.S. can learn about education during crisis from Korea’s wartime example
With so few buildings left standing during the Korean War, exasperated teachers asked my grandfather where they should hold class. He told them to teach outside. “Hold classes on riverbeds, on mountainsides — anywhere,” he said. Without books, he instructed teachers to “teach from life.” And so they did. In 1950, the Korean conflict escalated into an international war.…
