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Because children simply do not have the knowledge, experience, or perspective to be taught such advanced concepts. For example, children think their parents are
by skookumchuck 8y ago
Because children simply do not have the knowledge, experience, or perspective to be taught such advanced concepts. For example, children think their parents are gods.
Besides, every generation in America has rewritten their view of the events in the American Revolution. Your view is as ephemeral as the rest.
- gammateam 8y agoAdults do not see it much different, look at all of the explanations the Smithsonian article has to give just to help people break through the distortion field to understand why these people did what they did. There was a plan by British colonists to stop an insurrection and treason. It didn't work, and it resulted in secession and eventual sovereign immunity preventing any further prosecution, led by the very man they did not kill. If you break the law but win your cause you get sovereign immunity, but there are still consequences, children already understand this. The teenagers that win their nation state understand this, the ones that lose understand this. Does the American story need to be taught as "but we're the good guys"? How did we get to this outcome and were alternatives hurtful to the union? Was that a problem?
- skookumchuck 8y agoKids who still believe in Santa Claus and read Superman comics (if they read at all) are simply not going to have the background needed to discuss moral subtleties. They're not little adults. They have undeveloped, ignorant minds. You can't teach calculus before arithmetic.