re: How or What: The way schools teach

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An ideal world is air conditioned. Your question is invalid.

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Touche'.

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Without a foundation of information, you cannot expect someone to make informed decisions.


Well fricking said.

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Trouble is, you can teach a foundation built on bs -- like Columbus was an adventurous hero, instead of the truth, that he was a plundering mass killer.

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bs -- like Columbus was an adventurous hero, instead of the truth, that he was a plundering mass killer.

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You are grossly misinformed or else just another emotionally-based anti-everything moron. Maybe you're disillusioned because money rules the world and you don't have blue blood? When you could man up like the the rest of us and deal with it.

I used to think that Columbus was just a lucky frick who got famous for nothing. Then I actually learned something. That SOB spent 25 years becoming one of the very best map makers in the world. He spent his own money taking numerous trips to Spain and Portugal to take wind and water samples and interview sailors on weather and ocean currents. He postulated that the earth was round and worked like a slave for decades to bolster his theory. Then he had the balls to seek audience with the King and Queen of a country that wasn't even his and to ask them for several million dollars' (in today's money) investment. And he got it.

Let me tell you something about the people he "mass killed" as you put it: They were still in the stone age. Their "science" was bullshite; their "medicine" manure. There were only a few million of them total across North and South America because their life expectancy was shite. They lived like animals and died like animals. It would have taken THEM another 100,000 years to get to the moon.

People like you should have to spend just one month living in the stone age. In fact, every American high school student should have to do this. There'd be a whole lot fewer emotionally-based anti-everything morons in America I guarantee you. And a whole lot more with a more accurate perception of what truths are "true".

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. Maybe you're disillusioned because money rules the world and you don't have blue blood? When you could man up like the the rest of us and deal with it.

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How does this have anything to do with Columbus, or my assertion of the truth? Weird.

Anyway.

No one said Columbus wasn't accomplished, no one said he didn't work hard to become the great shipmen that he was. Hitler was no slouch either, but ya know, not the nicest guy around.

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he had the balls to seek audience with the King and Queen of a country that wasn't even his and to ask them for several million dollars' (in today's money) investment. And he got it.

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Yeah, he got it. You know how? Because he greatly exaggerated and lied about the gold that was found.

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Let me tell you something about the people he "mass killed" as you put it: They were still in the stone age. Their "science" was bullshite; their "medicine" manure
They were still in the stone age. Their "science" was bullshite; their "medicine" manure. There were only a few million of them total across North and South America because their life expectancy was shite. They lived like animals and died like animals

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From the accounts of Columbus himself, and a priest that traveled with the company, what you just described is not quite the truth. But your ignorance on that matter isn't very relevant to the main issue -- understanding that Columbus was disgusting. Given the education/intelligence level I'm dealing with I'm not going to waste energy giving a history lesson.

But I'll offer you the tools to learn yourself. Since you'd like to recommend that I live in the stone age, I'd like to make the mild recommendation that you read a few books, a lopsided trade off, but I'm confident you'd benefit and that's my interest. Maybe A People's History of The United States, maybe Ishmael, or Empire of the Summer Moon. You seem like you could use some post-indoctrination education. I'd love it if you read just the first chapter of A Peoples History, which is all about our beloved hero, Columbus.

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Is this to what you're alluding?

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Well, um, that, and like the 3 million people who died within a decade in Hispaniola. Spaniards refused to walk any distance, making the indians carry them on their backs. They'd cut open indians to test their blades sharpness, 700,000 babies died on Cuba in 3 months. They wiped out civilizations of people. I mean, Jesus, bud. How detailed do you need me to get? These things I mentioned take away from the larger scope. The romantic story of adventure is bs, it's revisionism.. But I'm certain you're as ignorant as the fools who did these crimes, so this is all a waste.

There won't be anymore time I spend on this, unless you'd like for me to scratch the surface (that's supposed to be ironic). Not worth it. Go on hoo-raing to your hearts content.

Great teachers show kids how to think. lazy teachers instruct on what to think.

There is an element of education that requires rote knowledge. Multiplication tables and the ABC's are memorized basic building blocks, but once the blocks are installed, what to do with them is where the magic happens.

They don't teach them how to be good voters. OF course if they tried the politicians would go ballistic.