"But then an even greater force emerged, the un"
"....And the un un-nazied the world...Forever!"
I blame the parents
my kids know the answers to these questions
The”<LEFT”has SUCCEEDED!We now have a generation that has been “Educated”from”Day Care”through University with NOTHING more than PROPOGANDA!!They will ALL be”Dependable”voters for “The Leftist Agenda”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why are those kids in college? Is Penn State just adult daycare now?
Of they couldn't answer these questions. There are only so many hours in the classroom and in the day, and when you have to learn how homos, lezbos, and transgendereds have contributed to history, some other events and facts have to suffer. Theye probably think the Soviet Union was a benign state too!
Todays students should be sent to the camps to live the experience.
All that said, a lot of the details this lady cares about aren't really that important, not with information so easily google-able. And there weren't that many really big dopes in the video. And most of the real dumdums were Penn State Abington or Temple kids. It's worth noting that there's a huge spectrum of intelligence and education at those institutions. We could be looking at kids who came from inner city public schools with 400's on each section of their SAT's but with 4.0 averages in high school. In all likelihood they're a reflection of a truly horrible education, not an otherwise good education which has this one gaping hole.
There was an excellent series on WWII produced in the early seventies by the BBC, I think. The opening had this doleful music with heartbreaking pictures of refugees and shell shocked kids during the blitz. I got most of my WWII history from that series. It’s been colorized and rerun recently.
•“Uh, I’m on the spot now.”
•“It was a, uh, I don’t know how to say it like. It was something that happened in. Oh my God, I know the answer but I don’t know how to explain it.”
•“I have no idea.”
• “I have no idea … is it Europe? I don’t think so.”
She also asked which country Adolf Hitler was the leader of:
•“Amsterdam?”
•“I forget.”
Frightening. Those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. Our supposedly best-and-brightest are ignorant, but think they know everything!
My history teacher liked to ask if anyone knew when the War of 1812 was fought or who was buried in Grant’s Tomb. There would always be a few scratching their heads.
"The African-Americans. By the mostly white people who set them aside."
But of course. This was the GOAL of the left from the git-go. MAKE EM STUPID. MAKE EM DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT. Then they are surfs. Simple as that. They did it. They won. They have made most of the generations since the 1970s to now that stupid, that dependent, thus Dimocrat voters.
I told a 25 y/o coworker (Purdue Engineering graduate)that Margaret Thatcher died and he said “Who’s that?” I asked if he was kidding and he said he’d never heard of her. The next day he came back and said, “I looked her up. She was the Prime Minister of Britain, so what’s the big deal?”.
Another young engineer overheard us and came up to me and said, “I know who Margaret Thatcher is.” I said, “Yeah, that’s like not knowing who Lech Walesa is!” He said “Who’s that?”
A recent UC Santa Cruz graduate had never even heard of Dick Cheney. He gave me a blank look.
They don’t teach civics anymore. Kids have no idea how govt is even supposed to work.
Face Palm!!
I can be a teevee basher at times,but it’s really sad that me and the kids learned far more about history from the tube than we ever did at public school.
The boy is kind of a history buff. He’ll probably wind up being ahistory teacher.
We watch the history & military channel a lot and I nag them to read so they won’t be ignorant.
Teevee can really suck if not done right and it’s kind of scary knowing that without it,some kids would have absolutely no idea about these critial historical events.
Quite a bit depends on what you are willing to accept for answers. The War ran from 1812-1814, but the Battle of New Orleans was in 1815. And Most people don't know that both Grant and his wife are both buried there.
The reason History is taught is that past mistakes aren’t repeated. The last couple of generations are going to try to put many of us in “re-training” camps, and then wonder why we’re shooting them dead.
"But then an even greater force emerged, the un"
"....And the un un-nazied the world...Forever!"
Ping to this incredible video. I thought it might be ho-hum; but it turned out to be very impactful about the need to let another generation know how easy it is for genocide to happen.
This shocks me, but doesn’t surprise me.
I was a gigantic history geek in school. I read history on my own time for fun. I found it endlessly fascinating. I still do.
Maybe it’s that the spread of ignorance is so thorough and happened so quickly.
As one of Polish heritage, my pet peeve is when they are referred to as “Polish Death Camps”, it happens all the time, and I suspect the people that do it, have a hidden agenda when they refer to them as such.
My first reaction was when I read the title was here is proof of educated idiots but after I watched the video I came to realize how can they know if they have never been taught the history of the holocaust and World War2 in the public schools