“Our schools are destroying children and history very quickly.”
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Yes, they are, most young people now know almost nothing about history and what they THINK they do know is very likely to be wrong if not totally the reverse of reality. Even here in what some call the most conservative state in the union we have a local university that turns out graduates with a degree in history who could no more pass my EIGHTH GRADE history final than I can flap my arms and fly. There are very few things now that are as overpriced relative to their actual valueas a liberal arts degree. I doubt there is a single person graduating this year at that university who could pass my high school final in all subjects. A huge percentage could not pass the test to ENTER high school in that era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGP7s0SGtY
True, and tragic. A liberal arts degree once meant that one was educated to be an informed citizen: history, literature, economics, composition, rather than being trained in some technical discipline.
My high school English teacher used to say that a technical education taught you how to make a living; a liberal education taught you how to live. That was true in her day, and still somewhat true when I was an undergraduate. But in the last 60 years, the liberal arts have gone to hell in a handbasket.