Should We Educate Our Children About War? | Knowledge & Wisdom

“I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.” —Suzanne Collins (born 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut) is the author of the multimillion-selling Hunger Games trilogy, among her other well-known works. Her father was a career army officer who served in Vietnam. “It was very important to him that we understood about certain aspects of life,” she told Scholastic Inc., her publisher. “It wasn’t enough to visit a battlefield, we needed to know why a battle occurred, how it played out, and the consequences.” Collins makes her home in Connecticut with her family.