Conservatives see liberal bias in class - and mobilize | csmonitor.comWell, of course! Everyone knows that conservatives hold the key to the TRUTH. You didn't know that? Ask one...
But I have a better idea...why not teach children to think for themselves. Show them how to search out facts and weigh them. Don't teach Left or Right. Teach critical thinking.
Exactly, that is how I ended up a libertarian leaning towards conservative. I didn't take the liberal garbage I was being force fed by teachers as gospel. It was a liberal teacher that helped me get to that point.
ReplyDeleteI learned from a history professor at Moorpark College...I have no idea if he a "liberal" or a "conservative", but what he told me was that the important thing to know was "what happened" and why it happened in history and not the when. He thought you should have the correct century when quoting dates, but knowing the day and hour was nowhere close to being as important as knowing the why and the what...
ReplyDeleteYes the what and the why is also the most controversial aspect and where history ends and sociology begins.......
ReplyDeleteI contend that everything goes back to the Fall of humanity. If you want to really know the "whys".
The "whats" aren't nearly as easy to define.
You and I have been through this before...History is not simply facts in my estimation. When you include the what's and whys's, you may call it sociology if you wish, but history it is.
ReplyDeleteEven your definitions are liberal....;>)
ReplyDeleteHistory is the presentation of facts. Sociology is the study of Human behavior. Of course perspective plays a large part of determining history. For instance Historians would say that it was the Soviet Union that won WWII not the US. Certainly history shows that the Soviet Union got the most in terms of the spoils of the war in terms of technology, land, cultural influence.
Thank you. But you made my point...Perspective, that human view of things, is what history is made of, not only facts.
ReplyDelete"To the victor goes the spoils"...and the writing of the history.
I've never read a history book or heard a history lecture that didn't include the story of "human behavior".
That is because we fail as historians. History should be just facts. The problem is I am sure we would both have a different take on say Ronald Reagan. I am going to approach telling of him with much more sympathy than you. I try hard not to insert my bias and just say what has happened. I try to respect the integrity of what without inserting the how's and why's. After all that is largely speculation 100 or 1,000 years later.
ReplyDeleteWell, not always as much speculation as you might think. The written records may exist for eons. And we do have records for the past, let's say 200 years...except for the records that Bush didn't want us to see and he sealed in his first term.
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