At Cliff's Edge
A very good Facebook friend of mine here on this platform posted a meme that read as follows:
"Education has been revised. No chemistry, algebra, cursive writing cuz it's too hard. L... View MoreAt Cliff's Edge
A very good Facebook friend of mine here on this platform posted a meme that read as follows:
"Education has been revised. No chemistry, algebra, cursive writing cuz it's too hard. Learn the letter D to vote."
And of course all those things are right on the mark. But while I was sitting on the edge of the bed lacing up my boots in the dark (always a challenge) it occurred to me that maybe the most important thing was left out. I'm not faulting her. This platform doesn't give users enough characters to work with in their meme maker.
What was missing in between all those truths she posted was that schools have abandoned teaching history. Tough they may claim to teach something called "history" it's mostly just the 'Fractured Flickers' (remember that show?) of history as dictated by the wanna-be dictators.
But history may well be the most important part of what students should be taught. It has so many lessons to deliver. First it teaches students of the battles of good versus evil. It teaches kids the important things to maintain a civilized world, why the United States was the greatest nation ever created. (Using the past tense was purely intentional.)
From a more practical standpoint it teaches us what worked and what didn't. But the educators have also removed the entire notion of "critical thinking" by children who will be the future cadre of our nation's "leaders". History also it points out which of the historical figures were the frauds, the cheats, the future dictators. And it demonstrates the real life consequences of what takes place when dictators rule. We're talking the very long term here, pre-dating even the birth of Jesus Christ, ancient Egypt is but one example.
What so-called "teachers" impart to their students today is nothing more than liberal propaganda drilled into their impressionable brains by this era's wanna-be dictators.
That part of is more than bad enough on it's own, but it now goes far past that. While students are subjected to lies, drag queen classroom party, blatant lies about historical facts. In the end they "graduate" with no skills, no vision, no ethics and no notion of critical thinking. Not one single thing that serves as a warning light and nothing about what was proven to work in the past.
This nation of ours is teetering on the brink. Forget the whole idea of the 'slippery slope'. We are standing on the edge of a crumbling cliff.
