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Originally Posted by jgaiser
I started to read another history non-fiction "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen when ...
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I thoroughly enjoyed Loewen's
Lies My Teacher Told Me. Here are a couple of quotes from the book:
.....College teachers in most disciplines are happy when their students have had significant exposure to the subject before college. Not teachers in history. History professors in college routinely put down high school history courses. A colleague of mine calls his survey of American history “Iconoclasm I and II,” because he sees his job as disabusing his charges of what they learned in high school. In no other field does this happen. Mathematics professors, for instance, know that non-Euclidean geometry is rarely taught in high school, but they don’t assume that Euclidean geometry was mistaught. Professors of English literature don’t presume that Romeo and Juliet was misunderstood in high school. Indeed, history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become.
..........— James W. Loewen.
Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995).
.....There is no other country in the world where there is such a large gap between the sophisticated understanding of some professional historians and the basic education given by teachers.
..........— Marc Ferro.
The Use and Abuse of History. Quoted in
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen.