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Stupid things you were taught in school
When my 9th grade history class learned about the October Revolution, our teacher put "Revolution" in quotation marks on every quiz, or called it the "October Coup."
We also "learned" from our textbooks that when Red Army units deserted, Leon Trotsky had one out of every ten people in the unit shot randomly. No sources given.
In my friend's economics class, everyone had to watch a movie version of Atlas Shrugged, because what would education be without learning about the lovely books written by Ayn Rand, the Objecti*****?
What other fascinating things have you folks been privileged to learn in school?
Great thread comrade!
in short...
Britain is the best
Empire is good
Monarchy is AMAZING
Only white figures in history are worthy of discussion...
Nationalist propaganda, which inevitably stays with you for the rest of your life (if you remain passive)
You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one
With our love we could save the world, if they only knew...
Chemistry.
No, seriously, I didn't even get to study Russian Revolution. Even when it was mentioned at all, the teacher would spend half an hour telling us how communists would steal our houses (which was funny because me and my parents lived in an aunt's house; we didn't really own a home).
ps: fuck chemistry though.
"We have seen: a social revolution possesses a total point of view because – even if it is confined to only one factory district – it represents a protest by man against a dehumanized life" - Marx
"But to push ahead to the victory of socialism we need a strong, activist, educated proletariat, and masses whose power lies in intellectual culture as well as numbers." - Luxemburg
fka the greatest Czech player of all time, aka Pavel Nedved
A good example from this week would be my form tutor trying to convince me that Russia is still communist
Don't use sexist epithets, it doesn't matter Ayn Rand is a reactionary, don't use sexist crap no matter who it is.When my 9th grade history class learned about the October Revolution, our teacher put "Revolution" in quotation marks on every quiz, or called it the "October Coup."
We also "learned" from our textbooks that when Red Army units deserted, Leon Trotsky had one out of every ten people in the unit shot randomly. No sources given.
In my friend's economics class, everyone had to watch a movie version of Atlas Shrugged, because what would education be without learning about the lovely books written by Ayn Rand, the Objecti*****?
What other fascinating things have you folks been privileged to learn in school?
As per the thread, that america is a great progressive nation thats saviour of the world and defeated communism, school was full of bullshit.
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
Eine Nation, unter Gott, mit Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit für alle.
edit: I didn't remember the "indivisible" part. Probably because I went to school in the South.
Dann steigt aus den Trümmern der alten Gesellschaft, Die Sozialistische Weltrepublik!
The Soul of Man under Socialism
Me thinks you ought to lose that imbecile, whoever they are.A good example from this week would be my form tutor trying to convince me that Russia is still communist
The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.
ex. Takayuki
That John McCain was pro freedom and Obama was a big government liberal
"Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom." Engels
Left: 8.99, Libertarian: 5.84
the irish 'language'.
Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
Communism fell. As if it was ever reached.
Also Zachko and Vinccetie (spelling) were communists (Marxists).
Iraq was responsible for 9/11.
"Maybe some day... I'll find a way... without you.."
Every country that claims to be socialist is socialist.
"I'm not interested in indulging whims from members of your faction."
Seeing as this is seen as acceptable by an admin, from here on out when I have a disagreement with someone I will be asking them to reference this. If you want an explanation of my views, too bad.
The pledge of allegiance. I even know the damn thing in Spanish.
The only remarkable thing about Helen Keller is that she was blind/deaf. Learned about her almost every year and not a word said about her politics and activism.
The political spectrum "is more like a circle", with far-right wingers and far-left wingers being equally bad and violent, in comparison to the moderate, sensible centrists.
I hate how they try to pass off the center as a "best of both worlds" situation. Acting as if the center is absolute freedom and free from any possibility of repression. I guess Vladimir Putin is just getting aa bad rap then...
Also, putting us on a spectrum and putting us on the falling edge and them on the center balance is almost as annoying as the full circle bullshit.
I hate government basically. Both the class and the actual practice. Jajaja!
"Maybe some day... I'll find a way... without you.."
that history is essentially a linear progression from barbarism to modern liberal democracy
I had a history teacher who explained communism, socialism, and capitalism like this.
Capitalism: You have two cows. You keep both and get to use them for whatever you want.
Socialism: The government takes your cows and gives you their milk.
Communism: The government takes your cows and you get nothing.
Oh, and Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas to prove the world wasn't flat and he civilized those savage commie natives and brought them Jesus, who was a white European man with long brown hair and blue eyes.
Jesus, where do I begin?
The way that history is taught in the U.S. is deplorable...as is the situation in much of the first world (I'm guessing).
Obviously there's the way the War of Independence and the Founding Fathers are mythologized and deified beyond all reason. The cult of personality around the likes of George Washington is so intense that it almost puts the Kims to shame.
(Don't get me wrong, the War of Independence was a very important event in history, and there's a lot of things to admire the FFs for, but they weren't gods.)
The way that WWII history is taught here in the U.S., you'd think that America won the war single-handedly instead of being the Johnny-Come-Latelys that we were.
The teaching of labor history is almost nil. Important world events like the Spanish Civil War go completely unmentioned.
Then of course there's the old wives' tales that still get taught in school, like Columbus trying to prove the world was round, or the First Thanksgiving, or Washington chopping down the cherry tree, etc.
"I've never read Marx's Capital, but I've got the marks of capital all over my body." -Big Bill Haywood
"...Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor."- Thomas Jefferson
-=UTOPIA IS THE MORAL RIGHT OF HUMANITY=-
Damn you guys went to some fucked up schools, I don't remember teachers when I was in high school pushing anything as reactionary as what is stated in this thread. I do remember one of my history teachers had us read a short essay on Columbus during Columbus day. It basically outlined the torture and mass killings committed by the Spanish in the Caribbean.
Actually had a teacher far back in middle school teach us about the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the atrocities therein committed. Had to write a paper about it.
The most stupid thing I was taught was a 4 year degree will guarantee you a comfortable job. Bahaha
Public schools are notoriously underfunded down here in the South.
"I've never read Marx's Capital, but I've got the marks of capital all over my body." -Big Bill Haywood
"...Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor."- Thomas Jefferson
-=UTOPIA IS THE MORAL RIGHT OF HUMANITY=-
I went to a catholic private school, it was much better than the public ones in town, we learned more in less time. However, religious education was a total pain in the ass. Our "teacher" was a priest (
Reading this thread is so confusing when a "public school" in England is the term for a private school where stupidly rich, spoilt middle class kids go to...
With our love we could save the world, if they only knew...
