Yea but the thing is the text books used in the classrooms now spend substantially more time on what America has done wrong vs what has been done right! Remember democracy is the worst form of gov except for all of the other forms of gov!
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Yea but the thing is the text books used in the classrooms now spend substantially more time on what America has done wrong vs what has been done right! Remember democracy is the worst form of gov except for all of the other forms of gov!
Andy A
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The last time I attended school was in 1973 (so I'm dating myself) but even then history was being "revised" in many instances. How do I know? I was around when it was being made and some were then trying to paint it in a different light than what really occurred. It is one thing to interpret history in different manners. It is something else to totally re-write it.
Yea but the thing is the text books used in the classrooms now spend substantially more time on what America has done wrong vs what has been done right! Remember democracy is the worst form of gov except for all of the other forms of gov!
I wasn't aware of this, please give some examples or links.
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scooterbug44
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History/a textbook having a bias or being rewritten is nothing new. That is why my history teachers had the CRAZY AND COMPLEX solution of teaching from more than one source.
With more current events, they would try and get first person accounts to present each side. So when we studied Vietnam, we would have vets come in and talk to us, as well as one of the local aging hippies.
It is shockingly similar to how I get all my information/news - multiple sources and multiple viewpoints and actually listening to other ideas will give you a balanced view that shows what is really going on.
And making the kids deal with conflicting reports, differing viewpoints, and diifferent styles teaches them to think for themselves and determine for themselves what is true and what is not - even more important in this day of infotainment w/ an agenda.
With more current events, they would try and get first person accounts to present each side. So when we studied Vietnam, we would have vets come in and talk to us, as well as one of the local aging hippies.
It is shockingly similar to how I get all my information/news - multiple sources and multiple viewpoints and actually listening to other ideas will give you a balanced view that shows what is really going on.
And making the kids deal with conflicting reports, differing viewpoints, and diifferent styles teaches them to think for themselves and determine for themselves what is true and what is not - even more important in this day of infotainment w/ an agenda.
Rita
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With things becoming more digital it makes it easier now to access differing information than it used to.
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