no

ok

fair

Y'know something that I think is dumb about the American school system? Like just one specific thing that's not the obvious ones like Common Core and No Child Left Behind?

How in US History courses during compulsory enducation they give the Founding Fathers this false sense of "They knew what they were doing", and portray them as a cohesive group

They weren't at all

They yelled at eachother during discussions over politics

us history courses in general are terrible at discussing the history of the nation

we're so wrapped up in propaganda its insane

the founding fathers myths are a prime example

Like, I went to college for a semester, before not returning because I have no idea what I even want a degree in. And my Freshmen Tutorial was on the Founding Fathers. And it was a cohesive course that went over how they actually were

Like how Geore Washington was a fairly indecisive general, or how Benjamin Franklin was a glaring hypocrate. And I said "Why do we lie to kids about these people?"

and the professor said it was about instilling a positive view in the minds of kids

ok god damn it i actually need to sleep

but i dont wanna

Meh, Unresticted Politics. I have read all of this copypasta on /pol/. I was expecting something original.

and I was just sitting there like "It's a history course, the point is to give them an accurate depiction of past events so they may understand past decisions and use them as references for their own"

@Deleted User Be the change you want to see

i love how johannes is a nazi trying to coerce diversity in the uncensored politics server

Oh that shithole has plenty of diversity, just want to add more gas to the fire to keep it interesting TBH

> the professor said it was about instilling a positive view in the minds of kids

lol

why is it called history if you don't teach them the cold hard truth ?

isn't that propaganda on its own rights

history as a learned subject is pretty goddamn malleable, which is how you get this mythical american exceptionalism stuff being taught as historical

Well I mean

the professor in question is also a lawyer

or is the subject of history in school education itself a form of propaganda ?

I think I might have had a point I was trying to make with that statement, but I'm so tired that it was lost on me the second I posted that

hahaha

@Trestkie i think any teaching of past events is going to be colored by a certain ideological lens through which the events are viewed

that's true

thus, as a taught subject, history is necessarily propaganda, you have to teach kids critical thinking alongside so they can sort out the nonsense for themselves

>philosophy major lecturing people about why learning philosophy is important

>i am a living, breathing meme

Hey, you wasted your time with a worthless degree too?

im currently in the midst of pursuing the worthless degree! 😄

well im getting 2 degrees

double major in economics and philosophy

That's not too bad.

They complement each other.