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My half sister is homeschooled and I overheard one of her lessons being read, something along the lines of George Washington's dramatic ride through the battlefield as he went through three different horses as he kept getting shot off. The history books have been spiced to oblivion to make them seem like these great heroes in a further attempt to ensure pride in a nation that was founded on the slaughter of an entire way of life.
Less needs to be taught about what has happened and more about what is happening, because history has been taught for ages and for ages we haven't stopped repeating it so what good has it really done? How much is real and how much is false it doesn't really matter. The young need to be instilled with a inquisitive passion for the future instead of watching every step of the past. With an endless way a mistake can be made knowing the one thing we could of changed doesn't do a damn thing.
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