Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
Good, but sad article. Why must politics enter into education? I know it does, but why?
One reason is that if you can control, (by omission, alteration, or other means) what is taught then it is an easy matter to reshape the past to suit whatever the current agenda may be. Many of the responses to the article (on the website) say essentially that. More than a few refer to "abysmal ignorance". There has to be an overarching reason for such 'education' that is most content to hide behind the arras. Notice that members of certain other parties do not like the idea of genuine history at all. Gee, I wonder why that is?