The human race has a history that is as colorful as it is deathly. Heroes and villains have existed throughout, but the gritty truth behind many events is lost in translation when a student is listening to a lecturing professor. Perhaps young people could be better served if they are educated via historical fiction graphic novels.
It is a fancy word for a comic book, really. Young people have been learning about a myriad of fictional characters and story lines containing elements of science fiction before the fact. It is not uncommon for young girls and boys who read this sort of literature to grow up with such a love of science fiction that they become writers themselves.
Sometimes kids are inspired to become writers, but just as often comic books ignite their minds in a way that encourages them to be physicists, pilots, or astronauts. Science, math, and astronomy have always been part of comic book stories. When the young mind learns that how much of the colorful fiction they read is based in fact, it becomes their goal to pursue degrees in such fields.
Why should be lessons teaching our past be any less colorful and engaging than the stories predicting our future. In fact, if we want our future to be anything close to the technological dawn that comic books portray, then we better start really teaching history. Those who have been counted on for this duty have been letting mankind down for centuries.
You cannot excite a young person in any subject by forcing them to memorize names, dates, and events. These random bits of information might be retained long enough to pass an examination, but it is no real test of what they truly learned. The blood and gore gets taken out right along with the passion and bravery that is part of the story of mankind.
No one would suggest that our history be taught in such a manner that one would give it an NC-17 rating. However, the watered-down, hoarse-dry version being taught in schools today teaches them very little about how mankind has arrived to this point. It fails them by failing to give them the information they need to connect history with current events.
There are a number of researchers diligently rewriting the lies our generation was handed for the past ten thousand years. We are finally able to use terms like alien technology in the overall discussion of theory. If we are to rewrite the misinformation and denial of blatant facts that is the history of history, then we must do this now before we let down yet another generation of students.
It is not simply not knowing the past which condemns mankind to repeated patterns of behavior. You can memorize all the dates, names, battles, and events you want. If we cannot teach in a way that connects this random stream of data to where humans are now, explaining why the world is in the state that exists, then go ahead and get ready for the next Dark Age.
It is a fancy word for a comic book, really. Young people have been learning about a myriad of fictional characters and story lines containing elements of science fiction before the fact. It is not uncommon for young girls and boys who read this sort of literature to grow up with such a love of science fiction that they become writers themselves.
Sometimes kids are inspired to become writers, but just as often comic books ignite their minds in a way that encourages them to be physicists, pilots, or astronauts. Science, math, and astronomy have always been part of comic book stories. When the young mind learns that how much of the colorful fiction they read is based in fact, it becomes their goal to pursue degrees in such fields.
Why should be lessons teaching our past be any less colorful and engaging than the stories predicting our future. In fact, if we want our future to be anything close to the technological dawn that comic books portray, then we better start really teaching history. Those who have been counted on for this duty have been letting mankind down for centuries.
You cannot excite a young person in any subject by forcing them to memorize names, dates, and events. These random bits of information might be retained long enough to pass an examination, but it is no real test of what they truly learned. The blood and gore gets taken out right along with the passion and bravery that is part of the story of mankind.
No one would suggest that our history be taught in such a manner that one would give it an NC-17 rating. However, the watered-down, hoarse-dry version being taught in schools today teaches them very little about how mankind has arrived to this point. It fails them by failing to give them the information they need to connect history with current events.
There are a number of researchers diligently rewriting the lies our generation was handed for the past ten thousand years. We are finally able to use terms like alien technology in the overall discussion of theory. If we are to rewrite the misinformation and denial of blatant facts that is the history of history, then we must do this now before we let down yet another generation of students.
It is not simply not knowing the past which condemns mankind to repeated patterns of behavior. You can memorize all the dates, names, battles, and events you want. If we cannot teach in a way that connects this random stream of data to where humans are now, explaining why the world is in the state that exists, then go ahead and get ready for the next Dark Age.
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