No Wonder the Kids are Historically Illiterate

American Thinker.com ^ | April 21, 2020 | Eileen F. Toplansky

[vladimir998]

But don't forget: In 1937, Honda founded Tōkai Seiki to produce piston rings for Toyota. During World War II, a US B-29 bomber attack destroyed Tōkai Seiki's Yamashita plant in 1944 and the Iwata plant collapsed in the 1945 Mikawa earthquake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soichiro_Honda

[real saxophonist]

Okay. My original post, I was just messing with the guy for driving a Mitsubishi. I know you have a little different taste in cars. I have this sticker on my Honda Elephant:

8~)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Most people today get their history lessons from fictional movie scripts anyway.

They think Custer woke up one morning, looked out the window and said...”It’s such a nice day I think I will go out and kill me a bunch of Indians for breakfast!”

[Vaduz]

Generally, when a buyer is Generally, when a buyer is defrauded of services, the demand for the goods diminishes. of services, the demand for the goods diminishes.

Only if the buyer knows he was defrauded the left has trained it’s tribe well.

[zeugma]

To me, what is really tragic is that this should be a golden age of education. The resources available to modern students is so great that it makes me feel like I was living in the dark ages. As an example, yesterday the supreme court issued a ruling that concerned juries and the fact that in our legal tradition, juries are the bedrock of the system, and the fact that we require unanimous verdicts is a large part of it. I thought it was a fascinating read that spoke to the history of our legal system and the way it has functioned. There were 4 separate authors, the opinion itself, 2 concurrences and a dissent. A teacher could take this one opinion, teach to it, and end up with a class of kids that actually understand the importance of juries, why unanimous verdicts are an important part of it, as well as how precedent works at the supreme Court and lower court levels. The real beauty of it IMO, is that not every person would have to march in lockstep opinion with it, as many different perspectives are given in each part. You could agree or disagree with any part, and yet still understand why the decision itself was made.

It's relevant, timely, and thoroughly educational on many levels. I can hardly imagine what I would have done with that kind of resource back in the Flintstone era I grew up in.

For those interested, the case in question is Ramos v. Louisiana. The curious could also check out the Oral Arguments which had been heard on 10/7/19.

[Hieronymus]

Big town or small?

I grew up in south-western Oregon. I’m a bit surprised that the two states had such different requirements. Mom went to a small-town Oregon high school and had to take state history as well—but that may have been because there was nothing else to take. She graduate in ‘66.

[GailA]

Depends on what parents taught their kids. Mine were all boys, they cook, clean, can at least sew on a button, and do all the yard stuff, since they have my OLD cars they do most minor repairs. They save part of each paycheck, eldest makes his 18 yr old work to pay for his phone, car ins, as he got the oldest of my old cars still running at 30 yrs old, his dad drove, he also saves part of his PT pay. Goes to TECH SCHOOL in the fall.

[jmacusa]

Yeah. I would imagine a BA in Interpretive Afro-Haitian Dance is going to open the doors into the corporate boardrooms and corner offices big time.

[jmacusa]

Although it wasn’t used during the Pearl Harbor attack Mitsubishi also made the twin engine GM4 “Betty’’ Bomber.

[Dr. Sivana]

As more emerges of what colleges and universities across this country are not doing, the demand will dry up unless there are drastic changes.

It depends. If people are buying education, you are correct. If they are buying credentials, not until businesses and society at large decides the credentials are worthless.

[DoodleBob]

Please, re-read my post...hopefully the sarcasm and intent behind the sarcasm in my description of Boomers and other generations will be clearer.

[BDParrish]

Jiro Horikoshi’s diary was published in 1956,

“When we awoke on the morning of December 8, 1941, we found ourselves — without any foreknowledge — to be embroiled in war... Since then, the majority of us who had truly understood the awesome industrial strength of the United States never really believed that Japan would win this war. We were convinced that surely our government had in mind some diplomatic measures which would bring the conflict to a halt before the situation became catastrophic for Japan. But now, bereft of any strong government move to seek a diplomatic way out, we are being driven to doom. Japan is being destroyed. I cannot do [anything] other but to blame the military hierarchy and the blind politicians in power for dragging Japan into this hellish cauldron of defeat.”

After the war (I believe) he was a great friend to us in rebuilding Japan, so go tell your friend and let him off the hook!

Anyway, Mitsubishi apologized so all is good:
https://www.npr.org/2015/07/20/424571375/mitsubishi-apologizes-to-u-s-world-war-ii-veterans-for-forced-labor.

[TexasGator]

ok

[SunkenCiv]

[colorado tanker]

I'm class of '71 too!

I don't think history was required but I took the classes anyway. They were real history classes, surveys of American and World history. My high school started diluting the curriculum with dumb electives after I graduated.

[colorado tanker]

My world history teacher in high school wasn’t a history major. I think she got stuck teaching the course. I frequently corrected her. I was probably a real brat.

[Fred Nerks]

John Dewey's adopted daughter was the anthropology professor at the University of Manoa in Honolulu who gave Stanley Ann Dunham her Phd.

Alice Dewey described herself as an Indonesianist - who moved to Indonesia in retirement. She translated Stanley Ann Dunham's thesis into Indonesian, which she presented to the royal family.

[Rebelbase]

And your Krups kitchen knives were made by the same company that manufactured munitions that killed more Americans than died at Pearl Harbor.

Whatever.

[mass55th]

I graduated in 1965 in Rochester, New York, and American History was mandatory to graduate.

[Old Student]

Guys, and Gals, you can’t teach kids what they’re not interested in. Period! I tried, in my short teaching career. Of the 125 or so students I saw each day, usually one per class (6 classes in a day) actually was interested in what I was teaching. I had a little better luck when I switched to special ed.