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In the first half of the video, Chalmette High School teacher Jonathan Holt gets the students in a classroom to propose one by one to his girlfriend and fellow teacher Iris Howorth with candy Ring Pops. The joke proposals all lead up to the real one, when Holt gets down on one knee in front of the entire class. She says yes, and a band plays “When the Saints Go Marching In” as the two walked out of the classroom and down the hallway together. ### Sex Ed Books Through the Ages  “Those who look at our bodily dwelling can gain a very good idea of what we are... The care of our body, then, adds to our value,” advised Barbara Wood-Allen in 1897's "Self and Series: What a Young Girl Ought to Know."  "When the organs peculiar to woman are displaced or disordered ...pangs shoot through her like winged piercing arrows or darting needlepoints" wrote mail order doctor Lydia Pinkham in 1907.  Published by the Christian Education Service, of Nashville, Tennessee, during the 60s, it was written by one of the founders of SIECUS  "When the natural God-designed and God-honored sex instinct is perverted and base desire supplants love, in the choice of a companion, the home instinct is degraded, love dethroned and inharmony prevails," wrote Thomas Washington Shannon in 1913.  "It is probably best, that the life-like illustrations, some of them photographic, in books of human anatomy be kept away from boys of early adolescent age" counseled Maurice Alpheus Bigelow in 1916.  "... the woman so under the influence of liquor is, for the time being, little more than a "cave woman," or barbarian, with all the lax sex morality of the latter," wrote R.B. Armitage in 1917  This 1928 volume was directed to the "young man whose aim is to be sturdy, strong and successful."  "Dr. Norman Carr," the pamphlet informed readers in 1934, "is probably the most widely read author on this subject in the entire world."  First issued in 1949, this booklet warned: "Don’t forget that any woman who lets you use her, or who consents easily, is not safe."  From 1941, "An intellectual and frank discussion of subjects of Social Hygiene, Physiology, the Science of Sex, Moral Living, Character Building, Motherhood and PreNatal Care."  This 1941 manual includes a diagram entitled "Facts you Should Know for Defloration on Bridal Night."  This 1943 book kept in simple with little line drawings accompanying text like: "Here is the way you looked when you were ready to be born..."  The author of this 1944 guide, Belle Mooney, was touted as "a well-known physician pioneer and lecturer on hygienic and sociological subjects."  "Sooner or later your children are going to learn about sex. They ought to. They must," wrote Fathers Rumble and Carty in this 1950 textbook for Catholics.  Written in 1950 by pioneering sexologist David Cauldwell, who's credited with inventing the term transexual.  In cheerful 1950 parlance it reads: "Lucky boys and girls whose parents, teachers and leaders provide this book for them! It would be a good idea for the old folks to read it too."  "The smart writer... who says flatfootedly or insinuates cleverly that sex experience before marriage is necessary for happiness in marriage is a plain liar and an elaborate traitor to young people," cautioned Daniel Lord in 1951.  "Here is a complete analysis of young people's sexual problems and mores—from kindergarten to college —a comprehensive case-history study of the new rebellion," promised this 1962 paperback.  "Before boys are ready to get married and start a family, they must at least be able to earn a living," claimed this otherwise very hip Lutheran church publication in 1967.  "At the most basic level, a concern with sex education must stem from the recognition that human socio-sexual development is a learning process," said this scholarly 1974 journal.  This 1974 pamphlet was part of a collection of self help books from Ms. Landers including: “Teen-age Sex. And 10 Ways to Cool It!” and “Love or Sex. And How to Tell the Difference.”  From 1983: "Ugly women have boyfriends, mean women have boyfriends, hopelessly insecure women have boyfriends, stupid women have boyfriends, women covered with hideous warts have boyfriends."  This 1993 book claims that "classroom sex education is always wrong and always harmful; that it destroys modesty; awakens the passions; promotes sexual activity and fosters acceptance of sexual sins."  "Sex is many different things, and people have many different feelings and opinions about it," says this 1994 classic, in admirable understatement. Read more: Why Schools Can't Teach Sex Ed ## Transcript [00:02] [ SOUND ] Edible [00:07] education is an idea whose time has [00:13] come. It's a way of teaching. It has to do with the [00:17] growing of food and the way that we nourish ourselves. [00:22] [ MUSIC ] In [00:29] the mid' 80s and early' 90s, we were really [00:33] in a fast- food culture, it [00:38] was also the vice of fast, cheap and easy [00:43] that had really taken over. Tonight, McDonald is [00:47] making my family dinner because there's no way I can [00:50] tell these big brown eyes mommy doesn't have time. [00:53] And we need to teach children how to nourish [00:56] themselves. And we need to edible educate every [01:01] child in America. When I [01:05] went to the edible school- yard, I was flowered. What [01:10] I loved most was, the [01:15] collaboration. The urgency of working together and [01:16] making things work, of the children taking what they [01:21] were planting and cutting down and gathering, and [01:24] bringing it into the kitchen and cooking along with the [01:28] chef. I also loved the way the chickens walked around [01:32] [ LAUGH ] and visited everyone. This [01:36] isn't just a garden in a school, I've never thought of it [01:38] that way. I always thought about it as a complete [01:45] [ INAUDIBLE ] that had the cafeteria at the centre. [01:49] They could learn the value, the cooperation that [01:53] happens when children cook together. They [01:57] are having a master chef competition. Each table [01:59] becomes a team, and they compete with the other two [02:02] tables in the kitchen to plan a menu, execute the [02:06] menu, and then present it. They're working [02:07] independently with no help from any teachers or [02:10] volunteers. And they are selecting their own [02:12] vegetables, and timing themselves, and organizing [02:14] themselves. We need [02:18] to understand the traditional foods that were so [02:22] nourishing to people, and we have to learn how to [02:26] make these things tasty. And it [02:31] actually tastes good like, it's sweet and spicy, and [02:33] really nice. When they first saw food like chick peas, [02:35] [ SOUND ] they didn't want to taste it. You know, the [02:40] unknown doesn't always look like it's smiling at you, I [02:45] love to see the children really cooking. I love the way [02:48] they learned to cut like a chef. They learned to, try [02:50] food. Honestly the sausage stuff if really good. I used [02:50] some of the recipes that they can own and if I really [02:51] like it, then I start [02:56] trying to cook it. [03:03] Learning how to cook, learning how to grow food. [03:08] Everyone needs to know these things, [03:12] because they're they're essential for our survival. We [03:26] know about the health issues of fast food, we [03:31] know about poverty, we know about hunger in [03:34] America. This [03:38] is something that there really needs to be taught [03:43] in a very different way. Children will not immediately [03:48] change their diets because someone has told them [03:52] that it would be better to do so. I'm not wanting to tell [03:56] children what to eat, I'm wanting to win them over. We [04:00] need to live on the planet together. 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