Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 1, 2019 4:44:08 GMT 12
TEACHING HISTORY TO SCHOOLKIDS IS A TASK THAT WOULD DEFEAT EVEN FREYBERG
Our children are going to be given a politically correct and sanitised history. A bland rendition of heroic suffragettes, valiant failure in the Dardanelles and why the 19th Century land confiscations are responsible for the evil things Roger Douglas did.
Rather than indoctrinating today's children to win tomorrow's cultural wars perhaps we can introduce them to the works of George Orwell, where an alert student might stumble one of his more insightful quotes: "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/116076057/teaching-history-to-schoolkids-is-a-task-that-would-defeat-even-freyberg
Our children are going to be given a politically correct and sanitised history. A bland rendition of heroic suffragettes, valiant failure in the Dardanelles and why the 19th Century land confiscations are responsible for the evil things Roger Douglas did.
Rather than indoctrinating today's children to win tomorrow's cultural wars perhaps we can introduce them to the works of George Orwell, where an alert student might stumble one of his more insightful quotes: "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/116076057/teaching-history-to-schoolkids-is-a-task-that-would-defeat-even-freyberg