Every now and again, when I sit down to do a posting for Brian's Education Blog, I end up with a posting for Samizdata.
I've just finished How the Hitlerisation of British history teaching may be saving British Independence and stuck in up there. It's far too early to say, but I think it may be a rather good piece.
I've written about this Hitlerisation thing here, at some length, but hadn't grasped the (anti) EU dimension of it all until today. It's obvious, when you think about it.
Like I asked over at Samizdata, do you really thnk this is a good thing all things considered? I don't really care what Britons think (that has nothing to do with disrespect, I simply don't care that much what anybody thinks) but being stuck in the past can't be good, especially not since it sometimes seems as if David Irving is no isolated case, maybe because of the obsesssion with Nazi-Germany and WW II.
Brian
Just read the piece on Samizdata and it brought to mind someone I met recently in my home education capacity.
This person had children in primary school and a German surname. All was going fine until WW2 came up in history. Now, as you say when I was taught history it was all dates and movements etc. Of course nowadays it is not like that.
Today the children are asked questions like "Imagine what it was like living in London, Coventry etc. under bombardment from the Nazis. Imagine what it was like for your grandparents living in a shelter during a black out whilst their friends and relatives were losing their lives."
I don't know which way is right or wrong but I know some children with a German surname who had to be taken out of a school they were being successful in after their school 'friends' took their revenge for their grandparents during lunchbreak.
Remind me again why I should send my kids to school.
