| Many people are aware that history has a way or repeating it's self. I guess there is some truism in that observation, and if we do not learn from the errors of history we are doomed to repeat them in the next go-around.
But I got a better idea. We could spearhead a political movement to re-write all the history books used in public schools. Not with falsehoods but just so the data is managed differently. Here is how it would work.....
We would totally downplay all the wars to just a couple of lines with an explaination that this was a low point in history, and then expand upon and highlight all the good things that was happening in histroy, things that were productive, creative, useful, and peaceful.
Thusly drawing attention away for the negative and towards the positive.
Instead of giving the impression that America is great because of some war where people died for your rights, we would instead focus on all the events and people who made America great by doing more worth while things, such as more about who wrote the constitution and about those who changed things for the better via reforms, and those who invented things, and those who "came to America with a only a dime and found the success and the dreams they had hoped for". Pointing attention to the acheavments instead of the giving so much long winded attention to our more destructive times.
Therefore when history repeats we would be repeating the good stuff instead of more wars. And if a President wanted to make a name for his self in history he would not think the must led a great war to get his name famous in the books, but rather he would make a name for his self in history by doing something outstanding on the domestic front by some new program that would improve our society.
Change the future by changing the history books. Simple but worth thinking about as an poltical objective relative to education.
Whatcha think?
Technosoul. |