Well truth be told, were i offered the choice of tapping this keyboard or Britney Spears' midriff, you'd be well advised not to hold your breath waiting on a return post ... yes, education is the answer, how to get em interested is the question ... sometimes quite south of here i help my good friend Profe X___ entertain his teenage classes, that's about how he sees it, structured entertainment as opposed to inculcation, and he's pretty good at it, manages to get more of his past the department examinations than most teachers do .... history is his favourite subject, name just about any year and he'll tell you who was ruling where in any country, what struggles were going on, and why were those struggles going on ... he's pretty rough on anything that gets dogmatic, like churches or political parties ... manages to make history come alive using a great stock of factoids, like this bit on a loyalist, from one of the urls in my post there -
'Scholars believe that Ferguson was the British soldier who had George Washington in his gun sight. Ferguson did not pull the trigger, saying that "it is ungentlemanly to shoot a man in the back of the head."'
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... but few care, most see it as irrelevant, and that's a shame, because while history may have started a long time ago, it keeps going, we are on the cutting edge of it at all times, it lives, and general ignorance of the majority is what opens the way for those who abuse power |
