For years the education system has been training us to believe them and do not question. Now it has gotten even worse. At one time if you were asked who discovered America the answer would be Christopher Columbus but we know he was not the first. In some countries if you question the accuracy of the number of Jews killed it German prison camps you will be thrown in jail. If you question the 9-11 terrorist attack you are crazy. nut job, If you question the idea of humans as the only cause for global warming you can lose your job. It is getting to the point that they are saying that we told you the truth and if you question it we will punish you. This is an attack on the right to think. George Orwell's Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting and distorting history.
The governments have taken away our right as parents to punish our kids. Then, government teaches our kids what to think. Now, we are beginning to reap what they have sown.
This thread has a relation to our own history. We were taught in school that Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the republic, is a hero. But in recent years, modern historians are debunking that idea. In fact, one recent movie is Heneral Luna which means General Luna, the general who headed the Philippine army during the time of revolution against Spain. Luna was a great military tactician since he was schooled and coming from a rich family. Aguinaldo may have felt threatened so he had Luna assassinated. Yes, that is sad to learn that a hero was killed by another hero.
History is purposely being confused, IMO. Take the accounts of the holocaust. A German acquaintance of mine claims there never were 6 million Jews in Germany and it's mostly bogus. He denies most of what was proven. He will quote "facts" to prove his points. I argued that he better wait another 50 years to spout that stuff. Too many people are still alive who remember. I take all these new "facts" with a grain of salt.
The way history is written it sounds like only Jews were in the camps but there where more Christians than Jews Ukrainians 5.5 - 7 million Jews (of all countries) 6 million + Russian POWs 3.3 million + Russian Civilians 2 million + Poles 3 million + Yugoslavians 1.5 million + Gypsies 200,000 - 500,000 Mentally/Physically Disabled 70,000- 250,000 Homosexuals Tens of thousands Spanish Republicans Tens of thousands Jehovah's Witnesses 2,500 - 5,000 Boy and Girl Scouts, Clergy, Communists, Czechs, Deportees, Greeks, Political Prisoners, Other POWs, Resistance Fighters, Serbs, Socialists, Trade Unionists, Others Unknown
Another person arrested for free speech. This person has gone along the whole west coast and show that all the sea life is dying. They keep showing all the death of sea life and they don't know why. he is tell them and they arrest him.
I know that history can be subjective even that which is taught in schools. One of the things that use to bother me about history being taught in school was that it didn't include everything. We talk about the Holocaust here, but I don't recall it ever being discussed in history class. Oh we discussed World War II. Yeah it was the second World War which had the Allie and Axiis powers. The United States got involved after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Allies eventually won. If I recall correctly that was pretty much it, but as I have found out along the way there was a whole lot more to it then that. This was one ugly war and I mean ugly across the board from both side. I didn't even know we dropped the nuclear bomb till I was doing a research paper in high school and found out about that event. We teach history in school's so kids understand and learn from it all including the bad stuff so why was so much of this edited out.
I was 7 years old when I discovered that teachers are not always correct in what they say. It happened during a discussion about the sun and the moon. The teacher asked if it was possible to see the sun and the moon at the same time. She pointed to a particular boy for his answer. He thought for a moment before saying "Yes". She scornfully told him he was wrong because the sun is only out during the day and the moon at night. I knew he was right and she was wrong because I had seen the moon rising in the east while the sun was sinking in the west. I know now that the moon often rises before the sun sets and sets after sunrise and I have often seen the moon in the morning when the sun is up. I therefore knew at 7 years old, that a teacher could be ignorant and that I should never accept the word of any adult as being the absolute truth.
Here we go again nurses who know enough about the rights of people and medicine and when they refuse to tell some one a lie they are kicked out of school. http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/st...t-of-nursing-school-fights-back-with-lawsuit/
Throughout elementary school, during history class, we would learn the false story of Columbus, and we'd learn the Revolutionary War, nothing more than a mention (for the sake of remembering the dates) of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War, and quite a bit more about the Civil War. By the time we finished the Civil War, the year was up, and we'd start over with Columbus the following year. In high school, the American History class covered the full span of our history, but with a very heavy concentration on the wars. I understand that Common Core is going to begin the study of American history after the Civil War, with a larger focus on the roles played by labor unions and minorities, no doubt to avoid the discomfort of discussing all of the rights that we no longer have.
Ignorance. I think, we have allowed encroaching restrictions by the progressive-influenced government (you know, that racism-victim mentality) over the power of rights : to claim responsibility of the lawfulness of our actions, to moral privilege to act on the right, of knowledge and claim to the 1st Amendment Common Core is another way of dumbing down America like zombies. The conservative Republicans don't like it. Common Core is deplorable to the core, to say the least. American people are waking up to the idea of investing intelligence with hard work on making a great future for America! Here's just an example of how bad America is turning out to be that needs saving: Chaos at Yale as offended students struggle with First Amendment. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/chaos-yale-offended-students-struggle-first-amendment
Ignorant people vote the way our leaders want them to vote, so it's in their best interests to keep us ignorant.
Sometimes life feels like it is a battle similar to something you would expect on Jerry Springer. There are days when I do not even want to listen to the news because it gets so tiring hearing these same slanted cherry picked items over and over. I guess it wasn't all that different back in the 60's or the 70's although back then it was all about the welfare queens and things like that. The school stuff especially is very sad, I don't know why there has to be so much controversy over this, day in day out we hear how our kids are not learning and progressing at the rate of other countries, yet we continue to deviate away from the things we used to do like the good old three's R's. This just makes no sense to me. Why keep trying on stuff that don't seem to be working? I get that common core is suppose to open the mind to different problem solving methods, but in all sincerity what good is something if it is so convoluted? I saw some of the elementary level math , in fact when my son was in school 20 some years ago they started with some of this, and it just seemed counter productive then, as it is still now. Why play all kinds of math games to get an answer, why not just do the simple addition.
This attacks on Paris is a sad day for the whole world, at least to those people who still believe in peace. I feel that terrorism is getting to be the order of the day not only in war-torn Syria and Iraq but also in other parts of the world like Palestine, Israel, and now in France. Do you remember the Charlie Hebdo magazine publisher that was attacked by the so called Muslim extremists for publishing a blasphemous cartoon on Muhammad? That cartoon may have offended Muslims but that's not reason enough to kill. So where is the world going to? What if the allied nations would unite and form a contingent of military forces that can annihilate the ISIS in Syria? From my viewpoint, admirers or ISIS are growing simply because they are not punished. Some people think that terrorism is right if it goes with the righ reason.