Learning American History Beyond Memorization of Names & Dates

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Permalink Reply by Gordon F. Olde, Jr. on November 12, 2008 at 6:49pm

I recommend learning how we fit into the big picture, and seeing how unique we are as a nation.

Here's a good start.. http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

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Permalink Reply by Tom on February 27, 2009 at 2:44pm

"Learning" history by memorization of dates and names is 1) not "learning" and 2) a technique employed to ENSURE that students don't know and aren't interested in their history. You'd never read the Great Gatsby and try to pick out only the names, addresses and other meaningless numbers to try and give someone an understanding of the story, why should we think that mankind's story would be any different. This is the reason why an overwhelming number of young adults, teenagers and children can't tell you who the first president was, how many states there are, or what the Constitution says. They have been conditioned to despise the topic entirely. Therefore, using the old adage "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it" here we are again, primed for another departure of a group of people from an oppressive government that doesn't represent them or their values.

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Permalink Reply by francis x.classon jr on March 25, 2009 at 10:18am

We can get the union teachers out of our school systems and the college professors.Then we demand that our true history be taught and we will oversee the books ,lets get back to the way I was taught back in the sixties ! !

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Permalink Reply by Miss FairTax on June 2, 2009 at 1:10am

Me? I joined the local 912 Project Group (We Surround Them). Even though it was started by Glenn Beck - that's all he did. Just started it and left it to us to fend for ourselves! I went to my first meeting last week and we had a speaker who was a "Constitution Teacher". She is also an attorney, very intelligent and I actually learned a lot. I bought a great book, "The 5000 Year Leap" and am reading it. It should be requred reading in schools. I too grew up hating History. Yep it was just memorization designed to make us hate it. I agree.

I'm looking into ordering a bunch of Pocket Constitutions (in bulk) to hand out at events. Everyone should have one and the 5000 Year Leap to interpet it. I'm talking to people about it and encouraging them to learn - trying to set an example.

The 912 Project folks are on the same page as us and they are Tea Partiers - just more organized and meeting very frequently, forming committees, recruiting people to run for office (they must sign a contract to uphold the Constitution, the 9 Values and 12 Principles that our Founding Fathers based it on). Tea Partiers could learn a lot from them (I'm a Tea Partier and learning). Now that's where to go after the Tea Parties. Rallying is great but organizing, planning and implementing is like the difference between one small step for man versus one giant step for mankind.

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