General Discussion

In addition, I had a real problem with what they did teach when I was in school a million years ago (lol). Not so much WHAT they taught or didn't teach, but they the entire emphasis was on dates and places instead of understanding reasons, context, conflicts, etc. of the history.

Now that I'm older, and especially after reading some of the history course lessons from the college, I'm totally enamored with history and she sociocultural and political implications in situations. This is lost on our kids, I'm afraid. Schools have been too afraid to teach real history. I never heard about the Tulsa "riots" until I learned about it here on DU. And I lived and went to school in Kansas!

To Paraphrase: Ignore the past and why it happened, and be doomed to repeat it.

I think instead of the cutesy names trump gets called on the 'Net, someone ought to start a real movement to name him "Mr Hoover". Even if rump doesn't know what that's about, he'll be flattered someone called him "mister" and then when the R's (who WILL remember Hoover) tell him what it truly means, he'll blow his top!