I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.

I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

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