Re: Do we need History as part of our education?

Tuan [no longer around] said Aug 10, 2007, 8:14 AM:
 


Which book is crap “Power of the Myth” or the other one??? I love “Power of the Myth” such an enlighten view.

Absolutely Katrina, art history is always much unbiased. Unfortunately we don't have enough artists to capture all of what happened through time. Furthermore we do have some art that is truly propaganda. However art history is always very honest because the artist feeling is from the heart.


I didn't go to school here in USA, however by review my children school work I got to say, this history need to be revised. Much of the history that my children learned from school is American Civil War. What is so big deal about that? I guess American think that we teach the children the fact of freeing the slavery will help to ease the social unrest between black and white? But what about there are facts that American genocide the American Indian? How about the American soil belongs to the American Indian? These things are taught very little because there are little Indian left on this vast land. To me they are truly crap.


How about world history? I don't see it in my children school work yet, she just starts the Middle School next fall.