“...students shouldn’t be expected to study a “a long-dead, British guy” “
Guilt-ridden liberal? Careful sorting it out by race there, teacher. By that standard we shouldn’t be expected to learn about the history of any minority. (Slaves? They’re all long-dead, shouldn’t be taught in schools)
It sounds more like an intense expression of the Humanist worldview -
nothing in the past is of value because the people of today are so much smarter and more enlightened.
You’ll see this as the basis of most of their conclusions.