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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
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Originally Posted by mysticaltyger
History books are written by partisans. What doesn't get written is even more important than what does.
The Granary Burial Ground in Boston will bear this out. It's a very old, historic cemetery with notables such as John Hancock, Sam Adams, Paul Revere, etc. But what's most interesting, is there are a LOT of huge tombstones, clearly notable people, who no one has ever heard of. At the time, those people were very important to the community obviously and yet our public schools don't teach them.
Why do we know who Paul Revere is? His family owned a silver smith shop, revereware, which is still good stuff, and on his night shift watch that's when the british happened to land and approach so he rode through the town doing his job - warning that the british had arrived. Why does every 5th grader know who he is - a night watchman, who happened to be on duty when the british arrived in the colony?
Why do they all also know who invented the Cotton Gin (and we all do too) but don't know the impact the cotton gin had on the US?
So yes. We are picky and choosy about what important information we choose to teach children in our public schools.
The Granary Burial Ground in Boston will bear this out. It's a very old, historic cemetery with notables such as John Hancock, Sam Adams, Paul Revere, etc. But what's most interesting, is there are a LOT of huge tombstones, clearly notable people, who no one has ever heard of. At the time, those people were very important to the community obviously and yet our public schools don't teach them.
Why do we know who Paul Revere is? His family owned a silver smith shop, revereware, which is still good stuff, and on his night shift watch that's when the british happened to land and approach so he rode through the town doing his job - warning that the british had arrived. Why does every 5th grader know who he is - a night watchman, who happened to be on duty when the british arrived in the colony?
Why do they all also know who invented the Cotton Gin (and we all do too) but don't know the impact the cotton gin had on the US?
So yes. We are picky and choosy about what important information we choose to teach children in our public schools.
Actually, the reason we know about Paul Revere is almost solely due to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "On the eighteenth of April in '75, hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year, and the midnight ride of Paul Revere".
For generations, almost every school child learned that.
Because the party of love and acceptance looooooooves spewing vitriol & bile at those they disagree with.
Considering what Rush used to say on air, I think it's bizarre of you to complain about "vitriol and bile".
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