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History should not be taught as a series of isolated, decontextualised events. This is what Paulo Freire calls "banking", which allows the students only to memorise and sort information so that it can be reproduced upon demand (Freire 58). There is no emphasis placed on the ability to transfer knowledge from one application to another, which can help the student to "create new knowledge and arrive at further understandings" (40 Wiggins).

In the context of U.S. History, transferability might mean the ability to relate past events to current politics or to American literature. By upholding personal relevance and transferability as core tenants of education, a large degree of responsibility is placed upon the student's ability and eagerness to learn. The tenants assume that the student is mature enough to take his education seriously and to challenge himself. The ideal student is self-motivated in fulfilling his own curiosity.

He is developed enough in his thought to appropriately make connections between class content and personal interest. In essence, a relevance-centered education requires that the he is self-aware enough to realise his ability, talent, and limits; and to know when to ask the teacher for assistance. A coalition source described leadership talent as being "as shallow as a kiddie pool" with it being widely accepted the new Liberal leader would lose the next election starting so far behind the eight ball.

There are five members of the NSW Right in federal cabinet: Tony Burke (home affairs), Chris Bowen (climate change and help kids reading comprehension energy), Jason Clare (education), Ed Husic (industry and science), and Michelle Rowland (communications). Others, who uphold a more traditional understanding of "socialisation," feel that traditional school subjects should be "the means by which the culture of the race would be transmitted to the vast majority of Americans" (15 Kliebard).

Groups representing social interests often push to see them represented in school curriculum—proponents of Intelligent Design are one example of such groups. Another example of teaching beliefs in the classroom would be selective history often exhibited in U.S. History textbooks, such as the omission of discussion of controversial conditions survived by African-Americans and Native Americans. It is debatable how appropriate it is to teach beliefs and morals this way in school.

Humanities represent a unique category of study, because they are often attached to social values and interests. These connotations make them subject more open to interpretation. For this reason, I believe that they are central to the student's fluency in society-wide affairs. The students' domain of interest has the potential to extent to social impact in the humanities, and it should be taught with emphasis on moderated class dialogue.

The teacher must not only recognise these domains, but also try to understand how the students are attempting to solve them. This does not require that the teacher make lengthily records and descriptions of student behaviour for reference; rather, she should keep a mental tab of their emotional and intellectual abilities. With this in mind, she is better able to understand her students without overburdening herself with work. Nel Nodding describes how she attempts to engross herself completely in the student's mindset when helping them: If I care about students who are attempting to solve a problem, I must do two things: I must make the problem my own, receive it intellectually, immerse myself in it; I must also bring the students into proximity, receive such students personally.