I found it highly amusing and indicative of the leftist nature of today’s educrats that some of them were saying since the NCLB act, they didn’t have time to teach history. History is among the top three things that should be taught to students. No knowledge of their pasts means students have no idea how to think of the future. A deliberate ploy by lib educrats.
Here is a more serious problem. If you don’t know the history of your country, it’s struggles and sacrifices, problems, defeats and victories, how can you love her? If you don’t love your country you will not have alliegance towards her, and you certainly will not sacrifice for her.
That’s how they want it.
They who control the present, control the past; they who control the past, control the future. (George Orwell - 1984)