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mannetje
18th September 2009, 21:21
I only attended christian-schools. there was not much choice in my region. and they never learned me anything about for an example slavery. And in lessons about communism they made it look like something evil. that kind of schooling made me very ignorant. when I became more grown up i started to realise that i was miseducated.
And i noticed that the education about colonisation wasn't telling us very much about how ruthless those colonists treated the natives. It was all about being proud of the achievemts people like columbus made.

I'm very frustrated about that :crying:

LOLseph Stalin
18th September 2009, 22:14
I had objective education on some subjects. It's called learning about Communism. Oh well. I don't mind now since all the Anti-Communist talk and propaganda had the opposite affect on me. :lol:

jake williams
18th September 2009, 23:03
My history education was noticeably better than it is in a lot of places. Canada has generally been a friendlier colonial power, and its history education reflects that I think. In high school there was sort of a critical-academic streak too, which also helped.

Le Libérer
19th September 2009, 21:06
I was taught that history doesnt exist outside the US. I was also taught history by Disney, as my children were, and as my grandchildren shall be.

Disney teaches us that Pocahontas was a young adult talking to animals instead of a 12 year old pursued by a middleaged sea captain. They convinced my moms generation that lemmings could regularly throw themselves off of cliffs and survive as a species. Americans are so confused about the nature of reality, they rank at the bottom of the list for higher education, thanks, in part, to Disney.

JohannGE
19th September 2009, 21:30
I only got miss-education.

The atlas was still 1/3 pink!

☭World Views
19th September 2009, 22:35
The only thing objective is that once I got a paper with a list of dates and events that covered the entire 1890's labor movements in the USA.

Of course, they blamed the 100's of deaths on "provacative violence" on part of the labor unions. So it's not objective.