All the more reason EVERYONE should buy our forthcoming book (out in December): "A Patriot's History of the United States" (Penguin): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595230017/qid=1092168718/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-3975049-9746237?v=glance&s=books
History is learning from other people's mistakes...
Students?. I'd wager 25% of the teachers wouldn't know who all these historical figures were.
A nation of Beavises and Buttheads....ignorant and proud of it.
A little more history, a little more geometry and a little less you-know-whaterie would be nice.
MichNews.com: High School Same-Sex Marriage Curriculum Anything But Balanced
http://michnews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/30/3276
http://www.drthrockmorton.com/samesexcur.pdf
Critical Review of the Same-Sex marriage curriculum for high school.
What I find interesting is how many people who grow up and realized what they missed. That's why Civil War, WWII, and general 20th century history books continue to sell well into the adult market.
This also keeps The History Channel afloat.
Many of the ignorant are at least not stupid, and know they are lacking something.
Rush Limbaugh talked about this during X42's reign.
But they sure do have GREAT "self-esteem" - and THAT'S what's REALLY important, right?
(/sarc)
Through political correctness and too much multiculturalism, our young people are loosing their history thus, their identity...teachers do not stress love of America for fear of hurting the feelings of a child whose parents don't want to assimilate, but want to live free in this wonderful country. Demand your child's school teach American history - with respect!
As a grandpa I teach my little ones in a lot of ways and we have too. The cultural marxists of the teachers union will not condone what I do. Don't get me wrong there are some good people teaching and they do this at least with their own children. We have to teach because if we don't we will have our little ones growing into the brown shirts of Hitler's Germany. God Bless America and all who have defended her past, present, and the future to come.
History is arguably the most important discipline. Hitler planned to ban the teaching of history to the Slavs he conquered, so as to deny them an identity and moral compass (see Hitler's Table Talk, a collection of his conversations from 1941-44-a brilliant book). What worries me is that the Left seems to have come to the same conclusion.
The lack of any historical perspective is why so many people are against the Iraq war/WOT. They do not understand the immense difficulty in winning a real conflict--they grew up on Clinton's "Bomb them from the Air/Withdraw When Any Resistance on the Ground Occurs" wars. But I am heartened by the success of the history channel, as well as grass-roots efforts (I know I'll ramble on forever if the subject of history is broached). And I've always held that self-education is far more effective than the indoctrination that occurs in our public schools.
Ambrose was an ass. This attempt to elevate WW2 as the new founding moment of American history is a rejection of all that came before it. (Actually it is a rejection of everything before the 60s revolution, but hijacking WW2 is a good way for the militants to pretend they're patriotic and get the rubes on board for the rest of the program in a way that appealing to the '65 Voting Rights Act or Great Society programs just wouldn't. Why do you think Steven Spielberg and Tom Brokaw keep spouting this stuff?) You saw the same thing with Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York in which he seriously tried to advance the idea that these gangs were the REAL founders of modern America. The plain fact is that the history of America is rather embarrassingly mono-ethnic and is counter to the beliefs of the present dominant caste in other ways as well, so the original players have to be written out so the new players can be written in.