I think you might understand, but it's kind of an argument by analogy. Since every single person has their own version of history you can't teach it all and there is no "real" history. I didn't really understand that until I got outside the school system I started with, but what's wrong with teaching mariachi music in Mexican neighborhoods and having Japanese as an option on the west coast? People need roots.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Casey Dougall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I had Canadian history classes that taught me that the patriots >> lost to British invaders. I would have been a bit perturbed at classes >> that taught me that this was a manifestation of the obvious rightness >> of British empire. >> > > Yeah, it's a tough call, I understand where you are coming from, we need to > learn history, but where does it end? It's changing every day, might as well > just teach current events with a smidgen of history, because the last 4000 > years plus get slimmed down to a few week at best up to 200 years ago. I > just don't believe it makes for a better society, maybe it all goes into > "World Studies". > > As a whole, the things that make us more unified as a world race, are > science and math with minors in language because we need to learn how to > communicate correctly around the world. > > It's like... If you get a room full of scientist together, they argue; If > you get a room full of politicians together, they bicker. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318348 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
