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Marneman 
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Posted on: Aug. 07 2015,1:47 am |
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Just watched Intersteller with Matthew McConaughey. Saw the scene were he had to go to his daughter's school for a parent teacher conferance and the principal and the girl's teacher told him that his daughter had gotten into a fight because of the moon landing. McConaughey's charecter, being a former astronuat, was like "So', and the teacher went on to explain that everyone knows the moon landing was faked so we (The USA) could bankrupt the Soviets while they tried to match the feat. At the time I laughed, especially when he told his daughter he got her a three day suspension, but later thinking about it I relized that a few years down the road that attitude about the moon landing may become fact! A lot of people I talked to didn't relize the signifigance of yesterday in history August 6th. It seems as the years pass kids are being taught less and less history, and some of what they're being taught is so slanted and scewed that it's not even funny. Looking over my nephews history book a few years ago I was appauld by the way the history was covered. We were evil invaders that took the indians land, fought a civil war to keep slaves, had an industrial revolution that destroyed workers, dropped a cruel,evil atomic bomb on the peaceful civillians of Japan! Yes, they should be taught some of the bads things that happened, but cover the good things too, like the new form of government that the founding fathers created, the hundreds of thousands of white men that died to set the slaves free, the reforms in labor laws and the inventions of the industrial revolution that made our lives easier, and how we became the arsenal of democracy to fight off the Axis dictators in World War II. I'm just worried that if the kids today don't learn this stuff the won't reliaze what a great country they live in.
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stardust14
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Posted on: Aug. 08 2015,12:33 am |
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Great country? History will judge. America is yet an infant historically.
History is not subjective. The "Ozzie & Harriet" American history books we may have studied is one perspective, tunnel vision.
Somewhere on this site is written something like "History is one version of the truth written by the victors".
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Marneman
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Posted on: Aug. 29 2015,1:20 am |
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Saw an article on Facebook the other day about a growing trend on college campuses across this country about microaggressions and trigger subjects. Apparently microaggressions are terms or subjects that could be percived in a negative way and could lead to disagreemnets and debates about the subject and or the words. Of course dealing with microaggressions could be a trigger subject that could cause the student to suffer some form of physical or mental trauma from having to deal with it. I thought our colleges where homes to higher learning where students would go to learn and discuss subjects for the betterment of mankind, but apparentlly those days are gone.
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stardust14
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Posted on: Sep. 17 2015,10:34 pm |
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PBS just posted a link dealing with trigger subjects. There are numerous pros and cons with this approach. I can sympathize with the idea that college should be a place to escape from the madhouse while learning takes place. Shielding students from controversial or negative issues may help some, while depriving others. Is the goal of education intellectualism? Or working with human intelligence, curiousity, etc?
Asimov once said that an intellectual is someone educated beyond his/her intelligence. A graduate leaving college filled with just endless sterile statistics and facts will be unprepared for the awaiting tempest. To any open-minded college student trigger subjects could be beneficial. And closed-minded students will fail, both in college and after. Trigger subjects could actually open some people's mind. That's good.
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