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Date Posted: 18:57:39 03/04/06 Sat
Author: amadaun
Subject: Re: thanks for the new Nazi Youth
In reply to: GarlicSoul 's message, "thanks for the new Nazi Youth" on 11:13:17 03/03/06 Fri

Lump, you said teachers should only teach facts, but what is a fact? Easy enough in science, but in history, what we consider facts, is just someones point of view that's been repeated often. History seen from another point of view can be recorded as totally different, but we accept the history we were taught as the 'truth'.
For example - Christopher Columbus discovered America. The people that were already living in America at the time would say that is a load of BS.
Indians were subdued so that settlers could move onto the land. Or from the Indians point of view, they were massacred, and imprisoned on reservations so that the white folks could take over their land.

I think the teacher who encouraged children to think for themselves and presented an alternative view of things should be commended. But obviously the education department's mission is to indoctrinate,and not to stimulate free thinking.

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[> Re: thanks for the new Nazi Youth -- amadaun, 18:58:58 03/04/06 Sat [1]

Lump, you said teachers should only teach facts, but what is a fact? Easy enough in science, but in history, what we consider facts, is just someones point of view that's been repeated often. History seen from another point of view can be recorded as totally different, but we accept the history we were taught as the 'truth'.
For example - Christopher Columbus discovered America. The people that were already living in America at the time would say that is a load of BS.
Indians were subdued so that settlers could move onto the land. Or from the Indians point of view, they were massacred, and imprisoned on reservations so that the white folks could take over their land.

I think the teacher who encouraged children to think for themselves and presented an alternative view of things should be commended. But obviously the education department's mission is to indoctrinate,and not to stimulate free thinking.

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