1 posted on
06/23/2005 11:47:24 AM PDT by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
When an historical event is determined by, or a consequence of, a political decision...how do you really know what the truth is?
2 posted on
06/23/2005 11:52:00 AM PDT by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: quidnunc
Public Education System is a POS PING! With the exception of a few teachers...most school districts are hives for disinformation by the lefty loonies that run them.
Education Reform is taking on a whole new meaning.
To: quidnunc
Actually according to the laws of quantum mechanics, history is just a set of possible histories with various probabilities of occurring. There is no one exact history.
Quantum mechanics sometimes makes my head hurt.
4 posted on
06/23/2005 11:53:10 AM PDT by
Moral Hazard
(According to the Catholic church the Capybara is a fish.)
To: quidnunc
Last term I taught a class in law and economics, mostly (university) juniors and seniors. We spent about two weeks talking about the Constitution. Most of the discussion concerned its economic effects and logic, but we spent one class talking about the primary features of the Constitution, including the rights it is supposed to insure. We also talked about various other common-law rights throughout the course.
On my teaching evaluations I got one of the saddest comments I have ever received. The student said, "I learned more about my rights in this class than during my entire life as a citizen of this country."
7 posted on
06/23/2005 12:00:04 PM PDT by
untenured
(http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com)
To: quidnunc
Who cares about American History. It's much more important to learn about the Aztecs, who counquered and killed neighboring tribes, enslaving them or sacrificing hundreds of thousands of them at the altars to their pagan gods, ripping the still beating hearts from the chests of their victims and kicking their bodies, tumbling down the bloodsoaked pyramids were a peaceful and advanced people that we could learn much from.
9 posted on
06/23/2005 12:01:55 PM PDT by
socal_parrot
(Tina Delgado is alive! ALIVE!)
To: quidnunc
I knew American History was over when Harriet Tubman had greater prominence in American History books than Abraham Lincoln.
10 posted on
06/23/2005 12:02:46 PM PDT by
putupjob
To: quidnunc
How do these regulations affect private school text books?
11 posted on
06/23/2005 12:03:12 PM PDT by
kharaku
(G3)
To: quidnunc
Time is fast approaching where true America history lives on only as an oral tradition passed parent to child.
14 posted on
06/23/2005 12:07:56 PM PDT by
skeeter
("What's to talk about? It's illegal." S Bono)
To: quidnunc
Quantum Physics: The dreams stuff is made of.
16 posted on
06/23/2005 12:10:49 PM PDT by
racingcowboy
("Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx)
To: quidnunc
History isn't the only subject being trashed. Geography, Ethics, Civics, English Lit and with graphing calculators Math calculation has been reduced to simply following the recipe. Generations of ignoramuses courtesy of public education. What a harvest that will be.
17 posted on
06/23/2005 12:11:15 PM PDT by
Leg Olam
(I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 30 years.)
To: quidnunc
What we have is Orwellian history, where the past is something to be altered at will.
24 posted on
06/23/2005 12:25:41 PM PDT by
RobbyS
(chirho)
To: quidnunc; putupjob
I knew American History was over when the 400 History Professors came to the defense of Bill Clinton--the Chinese Enabler and Chief Pervert.
To: quidnunc
My last oddball post aside, I work in the California Parks system. Often, while trying to provide details on history, we often find ourselves having to "adjust" some of our presentations to either lessen the potential for offending certain groups, or to apologize for many of our forefathers' (er, framers) errors committed against these certain groups.
History is history. If errors were made, let's not gloss over them but learn from them. Otherwise we increase our potential to commit these sins again.
29 posted on
06/23/2005 12:29:15 PM PDT by
racingcowboy
("Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx)
To: sauropod
32 posted on
06/23/2005 12:32:11 PM PDT by
sauropod
(De gustibus non est disputandum)
To: quidnunc
which is exactly why i pick up every copy of an old history text book i can get my hands on. my children will get a proper history education. not to mention i sat at my great-grandmothers knee often growing up, litening to stories of HER greatgrandparents. and will pass these stories onto my children, grandchildren, etc.
34 posted on
06/23/2005 12:33:49 PM PDT by
absolootezer0
("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
To: quidnunc
To: quidnunc
"Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
Would repeating ninty five percent of America's history, be a bad thing??
42 posted on
06/23/2005 1:06:22 PM PDT by
F.J. Mitchell
(Actually, the Koran is the perfect book for swearing in congenital liars- it "is" their bible.)
To: quidnunc
The agenda is clear:
Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. ---- 1984 by George Orwell
Public Schools were created to mold students into good students. They were to be Americanized, learn our common history, and learn the prevailing generic Protestant Biblical worldview.
Today, we have multi-culturalism, multilingualism, and discrimination against religion. The goal of the left is to destroy America.
51 posted on
06/23/2005 6:35:11 PM PDT by
rmlew
(Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
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