[thomas pendrake]

Since I have been posting stuff on forums I have become aware that many young people have absolutely no knowledge of History. Perhaps it is an outcome of the ill thought out "no child left behind" policy that ignores most educational topics. Just look at the debate on the Holocaust. As a child I saw countless hours of documentation on the execution camps of the Nazis. Of course, we cannot ignore the Gulag or the mess of Maoism, but that does not change the fact that Hitler brought the death of tens of millions of people, a very large number of whom were Germans. I can understand that someone brought up in an Islamicist state ( notice that I did not say Islamic) may be unaware of the facts about the Holocaust, but that anyone brought up in the Western world should be so uneducated is unbelievable. Any Lucid comments (about the teaching of history).

[Leader]

The "history" taught today is subjective. Teachers will leave out bits and pieces depending on what they think should be taught to the kids.

[Skitstep]

The History taught today is subjective. Teachers will leave out bits and pieces depending on what they think should be taught to the kids.

I can vouch for this. My teacher literally told me "We don't teach you the truth about Christopher Columbus until about 8th grade. We don't think that you can comprehend the real history behind what he did." I think the thread title should be, "We need BETTER history classes in school."