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When speaking about this, it is good to be clear about what kind of history is being talked about. In my opinion, the most important history is the one being t
by mongol 3y ago
When speaking about this, it is good to be clear about what kind of history is being talked about. In my opinion, the most important history is the one being taught in schools, because it is the one that everyone will relate to later on.
- sillystuff 3y agoLMTTM is an excellent book on the subject of (poor state of) history being taught in K-12 schools in the US. I bought it for my son when he was in elementary school, and the "history" he was being taught was mostly just uncritical hero worship of famous people combined with made up bullshit to improve narrative flow. "After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he [Loewen] has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past." "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" - James W. Loewen https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything-dp-1620973928/dp/1620973928/ref=dp_ob_title_bk https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything-dp-16...
- thriftwy 3y agoEvery country has its own schools and what gets taught there is drastically different, evolves with time. This does indeed seem to work, to my surprise since I can't positively remember a word of what were taught at school. Went in one ear and out of another.