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Winston Churchill has been dropped from the history curriculum in British secondary schools.
Students will learn about World War II and Hitler, but teachers are no longer required to specifically teach about Prime Minister Churchill as part of their lessons.
Elizabeth I and Henry VIII were also dropped from the "must study" list, in favor of trendy topics like global warming.
How is this even possible?
More from The Sun.
Just when you think the world can't get any more politically correct or dumbed down...
Update: I misread the article the first time, and it turns out Hitler has been dropped too.
What's the saying about those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it? How can the British learn from history if they aren't learning history in the first place?
posted by Laura @ 11:28 PM
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That's a shame. Did you also see this about Shakespeare?
Wow. British needs to grow a conservative movement.
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'Great' Britain is now anything but...
There is something very heartbreaking and disturbingly telling about this.
It's especially sad considering that simultaneously Britain is engaging in an Orwellian refusal to use terminology such as "Muslim" in connection with terrorism, and there have been other stories about their history courses omitting topics which offend Muslims, such as the Crusades or the Holocaust. This seems to be part of an ongoing effort to rewrite or minimize history, including current events.
Laura
Mrs. H.H., that's really sad about Shakespeare and U.S. colleges...
Best wishes,
Laura
When I was in the U.K. in 1987 I met someone in the know about their education requirements...sorry, I don't remember her name or title. She told me they have different approach than the U.S. when naming educational requirements. At that time she gave as an example, they required that religion and physical education be on the curriculum, but they didn't require reading and math (or maybe it was that they didn’t list detailed specifics for the latter two). Why? Because schools wouldn’t drop reading and math, but they might drop religion or p.e. So the theory was: instead of requiring what won’t be dropped, require what’s important, but might be dropped.
Was this right? I don’t know.
Did it work? I don’t know.
Is it still the philosophy? I don’t know; but the article Laura linked to does slightly imply it is the philosophy behind the decision. Not that that makes the decision right.
Missy http://missyisms.typepad.com
Thanks for that added insight, Missy! Very interesting.
Laura
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