saxysammyp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, the sentiment makes sense, but if the answer is to teach more kids to think critically, we have an uphill battle. Something tells me that republican legislatures are already very aware of this sentiment as evidenced by all of the book banning a we are seeing in states across the country.
Honesty, in these dire circumstances, we need both tools.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would like to see history tests no longer ask exact dates and instead ask WHY something happened. Why Japan chose to attack Pearl Harbor is a much more thought provoking question than what day Pearl Harbor got attacked.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah though I think filling in timelines of correlated events is also important as are certain time gaps or how short or long something was. Maybe the fact that cowboys and Victorians were Meji era, doesn’t need mentioned, but understanding that they were less than a lifetime away from the era of American piracy does give an understanding of how the colonialism that both were able to achieve with minimal losses using new industrial technology and how that influenced WWI.