Should we change the way we teach younger students about the history of the United States? Explain
I honestly think we should . I mean why make history sound so happy and jolly that we won all the time when in reality we didn't. We're just basically lying to innocent kids who should have the right to know the truth. If some stories are to violent then don't sugar coat it and make it sound like we Americans always won and defeated a battle. Just wait till you think that the students are old enough to hear about it. That way they'll really know the truth in history instead of seeing it as in a one person point of view thing.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
lie after lie..
"History is the lie commonly agreed upon." What did Voltaire mean by this quote?
What i think Voltarie was trying to say was that how we as people seem to agree on things that we were taught before and keep teaching other people what we know from our understanding. But what we do not know is that many of the historical events on how the United States puts it as "we never loose" are lies the United States has failed several times and surrendered . And not only that but in addition there are many events never mentioned in textbooks that we use in school . So it isn't fair how we only get to hear one side of the story and what ever they want us to hear and not hear what really happen.
What i think Voltarie was trying to say was that how we as people seem to agree on things that we were taught before and keep teaching other people what we know from our understanding. But what we do not know is that many of the historical events on how the United States puts it as "we never loose" are lies the United States has failed several times and surrendered . And not only that but in addition there are many events never mentioned in textbooks that we use in school . So it isn't fair how we only get to hear one side of the story and what ever they want us to hear and not hear what really happen.
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