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 > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:37 AM, doc <[email protected]> wrote: >
Any decent history book opens the possibility to correct that problem. The notion that wikipedia is the solution to the problem of American historical illiteracy beggars belief. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
