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I took a course called Perspectives in Nazism that was not, strictly speaking, a history course. We approached the topic through, yes, history, but also art, music, film, literature, architecture, etc
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My own history tutor focused on Nazi sex camps, and also covered the cost of a shag in Russia during the revolution. We did want to get him a dominatrix kissogram on the last day of term - but someone grassed us up. Sad.
Education teaches you how to learn. Perhaps too much is left to the schools that should be taught at home. We heard on news a couple of weeks ago, that children start school unable to use a knife and fork. The teacher interviewed explained that they start them off with a spoon! To my thinking, thats valuable teaching time - childrens parents should have already taught them to eat with more than their mitts. The well rounded education should idealy happen at home. Invite your child to help you change the brake pads, paper a room, garden - those are the gifts of time and experience that they will remember and use after your death, the information that is passed from generation to generation - and will help save them getting ripped off in life - you teach them about relationships, geneology politics - in the same way. You equip them to be able to find out stuff for themselves, to investigate FACTS and to draw their own conclusions.
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