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Ignorance of U.S. history called threat to security
Washington Times ^
| Friday, April 11, 2003
| By George Archibald
Posted on 04/11/2003 12:55:09 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
[history]
Widespread ignorance of American history among students and teachers at high schools and colleges is a major threat to the nation's security, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author David McCullough told a Senate panel yesterday.
"We are raising a generation of people who are historically illiterate" and ignorant of the basic philosophical foundations of our constitutional free society, the past president of the Society of American Historians said.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Massachusetts; US: Texas; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: historyeducation; homeschoollist; nationalsecurity; ushistory
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To: Tijeras_Slim
And the liberal education establishment like it that way. That's the truth! What's worse is that the liberal establishment is not only failing to teach real history, it's taking advantage of this to create its own "history."
I bet you didn't know, for example, that the Iriquois were responsible for our form of government? Hah, thought you didn't!
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04/11/2003 5:14:08 AM PDT
by
livius
To: grania
However, it is not a function of the federal government's budget to pay for it. But that would require knowledge of the Constitution to know that. I think it is ironic that the proposed solution to ignorance of our history and Constitution is unconstitutional use of power.
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04/11/2003 5:19:54 AM PDT
by
tnlibertarian
(Please show me the public school amendment)
To: Rebelbase
I'm grateful one of our elem teachers has FNC on in the room.
The calibur of History teachers hasn't improved since I was in school. The schools still hire coaches who only have the next game on their minds so don't have the time or care about teaching History. It's the schools' fault, not the government's. If kids don't have an understanding of past US and world events, how will they be able to understand current events?
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04/11/2003 6:34:11 AM PDT
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TxBec
(Tag! You're it!)
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