Posted on 03/10/2009 11:47:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
According to this item from The Times of London, a survey of secondary students in Great Britain (age 11 to 16) revealed that many could not identify Auschwitz -- even though Holocaust studies are part of the national curriculum.
The Times cites a poll of students done by the British Press Association.
It found that "about 10% were not sure what it [Auschwitz] was, 8% thought it was a country bordering Germany, 2% thought it was a beer, the same proportion said it was a religious festival and a further 1% said it was a type of bread."
(Excerpt) Read more at religionblog.dallasnews.com ...
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
And here's an FR thread also from 2007:
And Camelot is about King JFK, his brother the Marquis of Chappaquiddick, and the rest of the dysfunctional scions of Amerika’s roil family.
JMHO. I don’t think it’s necessary at age 11. That doesn’t mean I don’t tell my own children about it. And it doesn’t mean I don’t think other people should. I just don’t find it so important at age 11 that a government study is required to test if 11 year-old children know about it or not. Plus, the study found that most of those children did know about Auschwitz.
Ask them what a gulag is.
Ask them who George Orwell was.
Ask them about Churchhill.
Then ask them to describe Reagan, Thatcher, Bush, and Blair.
Last week I asked my 8 year old who Thomas Edison was. He didn’t have a clue. I ordered a biography for him.
If Sean Hannity’s “man on the street” interviews are any indication of the background knowledge of average Americans, we’re not much better off. A couple of years ago, as Independence Day appproached, he armed a reporter with a microphone and sent her out to ask passersby on the street what we celebrate on July 4. If I remember correctly, no one even came close to giving the right answer—which the reporter didn’t even know.
Me brudder’s student-teaching in a south east Pennsylvania high school - from the stories he’s telling, many of the kids he’s around probably wouldn’t be able to identify Auschwitz, Britain, Germany, Japan, Marshall, Berlin, World War II, or even America.
Eat, sleep, talk, talk on cellphone, text on cellphone, play video games, repeat.
But they can repeat the Quaran,Sera and verse.
The Magnificent Three were inspired to take action after seeing President Franklin D. Roosevelt on television in 1929.
They take notice when they live in a socialist pig sty. Maybe they’ll wake up.
It was fairly objective from what I recall. I don’t think it really is the job of a history teacher in the UK to propagate how awesome or how nasty the US was, but to give the facts and then invite discussion. That is what a good history teacher does, and I had a damn good one....
Exactly. Al Gore had put the finishing touches on that invention a few years earlier.
Did he have to look at a bracelet on his wrist to tell us the name of his uncle?
Koran, Sera Sera,
Whatever will be will be...
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