It is said that those that don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. It seems liberals in our education system don’t get it.
This morning I asked my daughter if she knew what day it was (she is in 7th grade). She said no so I said it was the 64th anniversary of D-Day and she shocked me with the reply “What’s D-Day”. That hurt. . . I thought our schools were good, that is why we moved here.
As I was reading blogs this morning I think it was Marko that said we have almost lost all the folks that were there and it is going to be up to us to remember what they did and why. It look’s like we are failing on that. I don’t understand how the schools can avoid teaching about WWI and WWII when they are responsible for the world we live in. Those wars defined who would be super powers in the world, and where the boarders would be in many parts of the world especially the
And I worry what will happen when we get to repeat things because we failed to learn from them last time. . . .
2 comments:
History is full of kittens and ponies until you get to high school. I don't think that we got into parts of history that even remotely involved conflict until 8th grade in World History, and that was more "look at all the different people from all around the world" that the discussion of any conflict. Most schools that get so far as modern history do not do so until at least high school.
I don't remember as I had family in the war it was talked about as far back as I can remember. My Dad was big on telling me about the family history. . . I thought it was before HS but I could be wrong, I hope I am. . .
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