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Originally Posted by DWB
If someone is important enough to get a national holiday named after him, schools should find the time to tell his entire story.
I took history 5 days a week, 1 hour per day, for 8 years or so. Then in high school I took American history on top of that for 4 years, 5 days a week, 1 hour per day. Hardly anything bad was said about Columbus, the guy is a hero. However, they spent plenty of time teaching us about Mao, Hitler, Castro, and others, and where every single gun was fired during the Civil War, but the truth about Cristobal Colon somehow slipped by. Of course, you can learn about it in college if you go down that road, but it should be taught in every high school.
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I would tend to agree and my history classes added up to about the same as your's. But I don't know enough about education and how it works. Because several subjects are sanitized/simplified to facilitate learning. both math and science are great examples.
We don't learn calculus until we've fully learned algebra, but algebra doesn't apply to real world problems like calculus and such do, it's bullshit really, but we need it to teach our brains how to process math. Same with physics, every time I moved up a level in physics, the prof would start with saying "forget everything you've been taught about physics up until now." Same with chemistry, have to take inorganic chem before taking organic.
I'm not saying it's OK to romantize history