Forum Post: Censored American History for OWS
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 20, 2011, 4:19 p.m. EST by LucidNation
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For those of us who study history an article about an early American smeared and censored by historians because he tried to create a more equal community. http://newtopiamagazine.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/the-pagan-pilgrim-the-story-of-americas-first-foreclosure/
Censorship will only ruin history and let us repeat the mistakes of the past.
You mean like how the Soviets went into Afghanistan before their empire went bankrupt?
Knowing history doesn't mean shit. People are unwilling to learn.
I don't think that people are unwilling to learn. We learn everyday. You just have to teach the right thing.
okayyyy. Unwillingness to learn and willingness to learn the wrong things seem to produce the same results. Who decides what is the right thing to teach?
Educators. We need ethical educators who care about providing a well-rounded and adjusted program for children and teens living in the modern world. It's not just the opinions you teach, but teaching people to think for themselves, research for themselves and have a love of figuring out information. We lack that as a country.
I am convinced a little more, every single day, that organized education is one of the worst possible things humans can do to one another.
But they've been doing it since they started. Since there was a fire to sit around and stories to tell.
Nahhh, I'm talking about schools in buildings with degrees. I'm not talking about learning from another person who knows.
Right, but I mean- that's the general idea of good learning. Kids spend more time in school than with their parents. Home schooling is a good idea, but it lacks a sense of community and it's very hard for working parents. There needs to be reform for the Education system as well.
I'd just do away with it altogether.
What I would advocate is some basic structure in which kids learn to read, write, and basic math, and then set them free to be productive! Let them learn at a job. Let them start their own business, let them get an apprenticeship, or let them go study something on their own. All of the best parts of a child, the fearlessness, the curiosity, the motivation, the excitement, the wonder, the creativity, the imagination..... we send them to schools and stamp it out.