But at some schools, like Boston University, where we teach, first-year medical students are taught the facts about malpractice litigation by lawyers and physicians together.
That November at the Tivoli theatre, Lloyd performed "Johnny Jones", a ditty about a girl who is taught the facts of life by her best male friend.
While it is hard to know if a fictional character like Juno could have avoided her situation had she been taught the facts in health class, it's easy to see we are making getting information as hard as possible for her real life counterparts.
In the Witness Project core curriculum, lay health advisors develop the concepts and skills to provide health education by being taught the facts about breast and cervical cancer.
If the resurrection didn't happen, or if didn't happen the way most churches teach, the fact remains that the gathered followers of Jesus, even those many generations removed from his life and ministry, have claimed to feel his presence through the ages in community.
Though the institute is nonpartisan, its message, that schools should not only teach the facts of how American government works, but that they should nurture civic-mindedness, seems especially compatible with traditional ideas about patriotism.
Biology teachers, and students too, of middle and high school know well the problems associated with (a) teaching the facts of biology without theme and (b) attempting to teach biology as a story.
Modern science has confirmed what ancient faiths have always taught: the most important fact of life is our common humanity.
Many think economic history should be more widely taught, citing the fact that Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve, influenced by his knowledge of the Great Depression and of Japan's slump in the 1990s, outperformed rich-world peers.
At a time when his peers are enrolled in college or earning money at jobs, Donovan, a handsome 20-year-old with a sliver of a mustache, is still in public school, being taught the most basic of facts.
