There are a certain amount of people in history that every child should know. Today, my children were introducted to Gandhi. Granted this movie is long 190 minutes, but it is well worth the view time. Today, I exempted the kids from all of their other homework (mind you DD had already done Social Studies and volunteered at the library and DS did his Math, Writing, and Reading - so it was only a partial repreave) and we watched Gandhi which I had taken out from the local library.
Gandi had come up this morning at Bible Study as we discussed what it meant to walk in Jesus' footprints. Maryann said that she thought Gandhi had in fact responded that in a way that although he wasn't Christian that since he tried to act in way similar to Jesus that in fact he had walked in his footsteps. Now whether Gandhi indeed said this or not did not really matter to me. What mattered was that I realized that I did not know much about his life especially as they began discussing his early work in South Africa and so I was inspired to learn.
I'm not sure that the kids will further their studies on him right now, but I will certainly try to find some of his writings to read. Perhaps I can even find a book that I can apply to the 2009 reading challenge.
This also led me to another question: What people in history do you think all children should know at least a little about?
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