What was your favorite subject in school?
I’ve always thought that you have to know where you’ve been to know where you’re going. I just wish that schools would teach more of the cause-and-effect of past events than just the generic names and dates and places that students don’t want to remember.
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8 responses to “History”
I think there is so much opinion and nuance involved that public schools hope to establish the facts. Names dates the undeniable. Then if a student wishes they can learn more. College is there to help guide how to study history. How to separate the evidence from the claims. Then most geology is history. All archeology is based on evidence as well. When history is written by the victors, how can we find the truth, if it even still exists?
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Name and dates only scratch the surface… when Southern school are calling the Civil War the war of northern aggression and saying the Robert E Lee was a founding father there is definitely a miss step in K-12 education.
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I grew up in the south as well. I had in 2003 a US history teacher, teaching the JFK conspiracy as a known fact. Southern schools are a failure because of the teachers. Parents fighting against the facts of evolution don’t help. It’s not the entire school system though. If it were then no kids in US would be advancing beyond K-12. If you have a teacher that is giving students opinions as facts, then petition the school board. We need less Jordan Petersons harming the impressionable minds of the youth.
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Thankfully my son is in college and I was able to help navigate his through high school. I have an undergraduate degree in history from back in the 80s.
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Something I used to hear often when I was in my fundamental Baptist echo chambers. “You can’t trust anything written after 1944. No dictionary, textbook, or Bible teaches the truth beyond WW2.” That should tell you a lot, and explains why now in life I want to learn more true things and believe less falsehoods.
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Lived all over the world so I have been able to get varied perspectives on events
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If ever I get that opportunity… I could finish that sentence.
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Thank God
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