good commentary from lonsberry:
"...Like the consequences demonstrated in a federal report, from the Department of Education, saying that graduating high school seniors in the United States have virtually no knowledge of American history.
I suspect that has happened for a reason. I suspect it is the natural outcome of a generation of education that has debased fact and enthroned philosophy. We have studied political correctness and ignored history. Worse, we have ridiculed and attacked history, teaching an ignorant contempt for the Republic and its origins.
We don't know who the Founding Fathers were, but we know who they oppressed. Washington and Jefferson are question marks in most people's minds, but almost every high schooler can tell you that they owned slaves. And that America slaughtered the Indians, and drove the buffalo almost to extinction, and stole the Panama Canal.
Most people are taught to have pride in their heritage, in America we are taught to be ashamed of it. American students aren't taught to value the past, they are taught to change the future. The clear lesson of the American classroom is that the past is bad and must be escaped..."
http://lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=3354&go=4
