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100 sats \ 9 replies \ @AJ1992 21h \ parent \ on: Purpose of Education Education
That's not accurate, no public school in the nation is pushing kids to become political activists. Informing students about history is essential so we don't repeat it, as we are unfortunately seeing right now with the actions being taken by the Trump administration. Just because the facts of history make.white people look bad doesn't mean we shouldn't teach it. The real goal here is to try and rewrite textbooks to keep students from learning about these past atrocities and events so they can be repeated. Also, it's a well known fact that the states that score the worst in the country academically for the most part are red states. The actions the Republicans take in attempts to defund public education and try and force universities to bow to their agenda is all because Republican politicians know that if they can keep these young people uneducated they can convince them to vote for them. The war on public education is real and it's scary. TEACHING HISTORY ACCURATELY IS NOT POLITICAL. ITS SIMPLY PRESENTING THE FACTS.
the problem with history is that people don't agree on facts , outside of the very basic 'person was born in this year, person died this year'. This battle was won/lost.
Russia has changed its school history syllabus like 3 times in a decade and every new version is presented in as the absolute 'truth'
History is about looking at the past and the events and thinking about who reported what and what their bias was/is and how a situation was perceived by all parties , it's not a hard science
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It is as hard as any other science. All science is only as relevant as the currently known facts. It all adapts and adjusts over time. It is called progress.
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the problem is, one man's facts are another man's lies, outside of very generic history facts like caser was killed in X by X.
Pol Pot thought he was a great guy until he died and didn't think he did anything wrong. People will say Stalin was a great leader and nobody can agree on how many deaths he caused, or if he caused them
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I'm sorry, but your arguments are weak and seem uninformed. What does Pol Pots thoughts or opinions have to do with facts. His regime rided the society of educated people. As this one seems to want to do, by the way.
Facts are facts and lies are lies and even if the majority believes the lie - it does not change the facts.
Recorded history is, of course, subject to human fallicy. This is why it is correctible.
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pol pot is an example, becuase it shows that people are, generally, not capable of having consensus on subjective things that happened in history and historic figures.
you say a lie is a lie, but what you hold to be a lie, can be held to be a truth by someone else. You think your truth and sense of 'right' is the only one, but it's not, it's yours.
What i think is right and wrong, based on my moral compass, can differ from someone else, doesn't matter how convinced i am.
and when this is put into a school curiculum, it gets messy.
if history was a hard science like maths, a Russian and an american wouldnt have to debate who 'won' the war, a North Korean would agree with a south korean about who started the Korean war.
but it's not, hence history is not a hard science. History studies human events, interpretations, and evidence that can’t be replicated or tested in a lab.
Historians can examine the same evidence and reach different conclusions, depending on their perspective or methodology.
I love history btw, I'm just saying it's not a hard science and, at the end of the day, learning it in school, means you get the government approved version of whatever aspect they are teaching.
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All those words to say to you think opinions are facts.
Verbose weakness.
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And these same people will call the facts, anything they seem as a threat to their agenda or way or thinking as lies or "fake news." The threat on facts, data, and science in this nation by the conservative right/white Christian nationalists is one of if not the greatest threat to our freedoms. The dismantling of the education department, attempts to get universities to end DEI initiatives, trying to make The Smithsonian take down certain pieces that they don't like because it challenges their views of history, and conservative groups nationwide attempting to ban books, project 2025 is underway folks.
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“The Empire State of Delusion”
Ground floor: everyone’s shouting truth! into their own echo. The marble lobby? Actually drywall painted “objectivity” held together by caulk.
Middle floors: Education Tower under renovation — “Critical Thinking” beams removed for aesthetic reasons. DEI steel supports quietly swapped for nostalgia wallpaper. Survive vs Thrive.
Smithsonian wing replaced with a selfie museum titled Our Version of History.
Top floors: Book bans doubling as fire safety drills — fewer exits, more smoke. Project 2025 architects sketch democracy like a gated condo: low ceilings, no windows, HOA fees payable in compliance. POA fees to the oligarchy.
Penthouse: a ragtag bunch of librarians, scientists, and teachers rebuilding the city with blueprints. They use memes as mortar.
From the helicopter view: the skyline still glitters, but half the lights spell FAKE SPEECH in neon.
Moral of the skyscraper?
Truth isn’t a tower — it’s the scaffolding holding the whole damn thing together but there is an economic cost to counterspeech that calls out the lies of fake speech!