Durova wrote: >> From across The Pond there's a wonderful book that came out in the >> mid-1990s about how dreadful the teaching of history is at the >> secondary school level. The gap between high school and >> undergraduate instruction is greater for history than for any other >> subject. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me >> >> Wikipedia opens new possibilities for correcting that problem. >> >> Over here it went something like this: >> >> *When we had our revolution we got help from France. >> >> *Then we bought the Louisiana Purchase from France, which doubled >> the size of our country. Gee, thanks. >> >> *Then we had the War of 1812, which didn't really happen in 1812, >> and we teamed up with France again. >> >> Somewhere in there was 'Let them eat cake', a guillotine, Napoleon, >> and Waterloo. But that was all on another continent and >> unimportant. As long as we could be buddies with France whenever >> necessary, everything went fine. >> >> -Durova
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