I think it is wrong to say that about what is being taught about history. The history classes I went to were not George Washington history or Sam Houston history or on a grander scale Napolean history. I was taught American history, Texas history, and World history. It was not important what they did in their personal lives... ie did they have any mistresses or how many drinks of wine or how many cigars they smoked, that adds nothing to how the US or Texas or the world came to be.
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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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Now how can you teach for the future if you don't know what went on in the past? How can one teach about racial equality if I'm not taught there was racial enequality? How can I know that dictator "A" is not going to try to invade and take over the world if I'm not taught that Napolean or Hitler have attempted it already?
There is good and bad to be learned from the past but that's how we learn for the future.