Bonus quotation of the day on propaganda vs. education.... - AEI
Bonus quotation of the day on propaganda vs. education….
…. is from Thomas Sowell writing in 2003 (“Twisted History“), emphasis added:
"One of the things that we take for granted today is that it is wrong to take other people’s land by force. Neither American Indians nor the European invaders believed that. Both took other people’s land by force – as did Asians, Africans, Arabs, Polynesians, and others. The Indians no doubt regretted losing so many battles. But that is wholly different from saying that they thought battles were the wrong way to settle the question of who would control the land.Today’s child cannot possibly put himself or herself in the mindset of Indians centuries ago, without infinitely more knowledge of history than our schools have ever taught. Nor is understanding history the purpose of such questions. The purpose is to score points against Western society. In short, propaganda has replaced education as the goal of too many “educators.”
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