Indeed. And yet it is noteworthy that "progressive education" of the John Dewey school (learned from the Germans, from Hegel on up) is devoted to transforming the rising generation of students into "mindless cattle," by depriving them of all historical memory.
Instead, Dewey's education theory is all about shaping "citizens" into "productive members" of society. Ultimately, the citizen's main contribution to society obtains from their status as workers, and thus taxpayers. Keep them pacified, and collect the receipts. That's the entire interest of the State.
If there is no historical memory, then there's nothing to "conserve," going forward. Conservative thought has no basis whatever, once historical memory is expunged from society.
This sort of thing seems to work very well for the teachers' unions.
We live in a corrupt age. People seem no longer to care about Truth for its own sake.
Much peril comes to us, I suppose, by the sort of mental habits that support such a view of actual reality.
Thank you so very much, dearest sister in Christ, for sharing your thoughts on this matter.
I agree with the comments.
One thing that disturbs me about the lack of historical review, is the danger to miss object lessons from the past.
Our Founding Fathers developed a great set of Founding Documents. Why? What is their comparison to other such documents? Are ours better or worse?
What can be learned from Adolf Hitler and WWII? Is there anything to be learned?
It’s shocking that history is boiled down to nothing, so that ‘good citizenship’ (by today’s standards) trump anything else, even the ‘good citizenship’ standards from days gone by.
Are we a better society today? In some ways yes. In most ways, I’d say no.
Our children are being raised to merely like popular people, and make not comparative judgements for themselves.
Toss in moral relativism to boot, and we are exposed to a new generation that is totally unfit to defend themselves.
History - factual history - is not taught. Instead, the kids are getting a repackaged revised history to make whatever point serves the ones who have political power. I hardly recognize the present "history" textbooks.
No matter how true a statement may be, e.g. the reference to Creator in the Declaration of Independence - if it threatens or offends or excludes (in this case, atheists) the political power brokers will see that it is not mentioned or is explained to be more politically 'correct.'
We do indeed live in a corrupt age.
Maranatha, Jesus!!!