Lies My Teacher Told ME (20 year-old interview)

[Masato]

Hey all, this comes from a trusted source

Haven't watched yet, I'm bookmarking it here for later.

As some posts Canuckster recently echoed, I have always felt an attraction to the idea that much of what we know of as 'History' might be a lot of colossal lies and misinfo.

Lets start this thread to collect various scholars etc who have tried to suggest this kind of hypothesis

[Som-Pong]

Gonna try to watch this when I get home. As a history teacher stuff like this is always interesting.

[Luigi]

Its glaringly obvious when you understand the agenda of the politicians in power. Back then the agenda was to make White people look awesome, now its to make multiculturalism look awesome. When I took psychology in high school the textbook and the teacher said that IQ tests have never found any difference between ethnic groups. I found this statistically weird considering how evolution works and the other differences it produced among people so I googled it. We have been doing tests for over 100 years and I didnt see one test where a trend was not observed. Its a shame that political agenda shapes how institutions shape children.

[Som-Pong]

Main reason I do not teach in Sweden any more. I refuse to indoctrinate kids. It was fun taking a bunch of Arab kids to the holocaust museum just for them to heckle the Jews there though.

[Luigi]

^I would just teach the material in a way that undermines the narrative they are going for. State the counter argument afterwards so they can choose for themselves what is true.

[Masato]

^ or state the counter-argument first?

[Som-Pong]

I've gotta say I had a lot of fun teaching the finer points of Islam to kids who thought they were Muslim though.