tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322783749535110052.post5402874012451825275..comments2024-01-11T15:17:13.698+00:00Comments on Martin's View: The History We Are Never Taught at SchoolMartin Vearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836538893598716215noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322783749535110052.post-82443649268902785592018-09-26T19:52:54.164+01:002018-09-26T19:52:54.164+01:00I never truly started learning about the History o...I never truly started learning about the History of peoples all over this planet until I left school. The author Howard Zinn totally opened my eyes to how much history is actively suppressed by my US culture. It disgusted me and I decided back then that I no longer wanted to be satisfied by the patent lies my history teachers were made to teach us as children, and even later in colleges and some universities. I try to read as much as possible about other cultures, to help remove the dust from my eyes. It makes me sad that the same old lies are taught still, to this day, in most schools.auntikristnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322783749535110052.post-6750126334997154802018-09-26T10:17:41.410+01:002018-09-26T10:17:41.410+01:00Thank you for your comment Laurence. I am not a te...Thank you for your comment Laurence. I am not a teacher but I understand that history is a moving target. It certainly can and is used to provide children with a view of one's nation and it is the revision of this view with passing generations that makes some contribution to syllabus change. That and the passing of time! Certainly while I was at school in the 1970s, the 1960s US civil rights movement was the recent past. It may have been for your classes that the Second World War was also too recent or, as you suggest, the focus was upon ideas and political movements rather than events. It is like the old adage about the value of talking about people, events or ideas: history can be taught at many levels. Martin Vearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03836538893598716215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322783749535110052.post-76977791003100877042018-09-25T17:47:02.491+01:002018-09-25T17:47:02.491+01:00My history in school (1960s) for GCE was mainly ab...My history in school (1960s) for GCE was mainly about Victorian England with topics like The Great Reform Act (1832), the Municipal Corporations Act (1835) and later on Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone. I don't think we ever got as far as Asquith. But then, the school I went to was in Coventry, a Labour city and long before that a Parliamentarian stronghold.<br /><br />Like most people, I had to teach myself much of the history I had missed.Laurence Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12022978799028708943noreply@blogger.com