Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[Char361979]

Shame you don't get more European history over there. It's kind of your history as well.

[kibakiba]

Indeed. I had one teacher, I believe I was in 8th grade... She was certain that Americans were better than everyone else... It made for interesting lessons.. To say the least.

[Char361979]

I don't think any nationality is better than any other, just different. To be honest, most contries have been invaded and migrated into by so many others the boundries of nationality begin to fade. I think all we can be sure of is that we are citizens of the world and we should respect each other and rejoice in our differences. Without these differences the world would not be the wonderous place it is, and I'm not sure I would want to be on it.

[chris-uk]

I don't think any nationality is better than any other, just different. To be honest, most contries have been invaded and migrated into by so many others the boundries of nationality begin to fade. I think all we can be sure of is that we are citizens of the world and we should respect each other and rejoice in our differences. Without these differences the world would not be the wonderous place it is, and I'm not sure I would want to be on it.

That post sounds like a Miss World speech.

[Char361979]

every word of it's true though.... Oh, and i'd really like to work with animals/children and I'm wishing for world peace.

[guidofatherof5]

Marnie you need to delete a few PM's.

[PINJOHN]

This is why you do the computer stuff. I'm a ludite.

i have been a ludite all my life and proud of it

[infernalis]

Indeed. I had one teacher, I believe I was in 8th grade... She was certain that Americans were better than everyone else... It made for interesting lessons.. To say the least.

How many real americans has this teacher ever met?? Ask one how they feel about this "thanksgiving" holiday

[PINJOHN]

I think this is where Americans tend to fail, I am interested in other country's history... It's the lack of teaching that causes the problems, though
I wanted to learn about Irish history, and German history the most... I'm hoping that when I go back to high school, they'll at least offer one history class that isn't strictly American.

had a similar experience in my school back in the fifty's, for me and every other boy in the class, history was the most boring subject under the sun.
what those teacher's tried to do was get us to memorize which king or queen followed each other and the relevant dates that went with each monarch, mind numbingly tedious tudur's Plantagenet's etc etc, all they had to do was tell my all boys class about the battles, the war's, the intrigues, and we would have been in seventh heaven, it would have been so easy for them as regards subject matter, no other country's history comes close, not even the Romans, this tiny island has spent its entire history either resisting invasion [not always successfully ] or attempting to invade some where else [with similar results] had the dumbos who passed themselves off as teacher's taken this route no doubt my self and my class mates would today be all history professor's.
please don't think that i am in any way putting the British historic war like tendency as good, just that it would certainly have got the attention of any group of boys and held it,......... sorry girls i don't have a clue just how they should have sold history to you

[chris-uk]

Ironically, in my GCSE Humanities (combined history and geography, with the GCSE being the school exam that kids here sit at 16, and which I hasten to add have got a lot easier since I was at school, afterall... in my year group there were 2 pupils who got straight A-grades across 10 subjects, nowdays they've introduced an A* because too many get A grades and need something more to distinguish at the top, and it isn't unusual to have dozens of kids in a school getting straight A*... you're not telling me kids today are birghter or the teaching is better, I know some kids and I know some teachers but I digress).

So, ironically, in my GCSE Humanities I spent 4 weeks doing a project on the Vietnam War. Not really part of our British history, but interesting all the same, and it was a subject I chose. I'd already read about our civil war, both World Wars, Wars of the Roses, defeating the Spanish Armada, Romans, Vikings... Lots of wars, mostly stuff I read because I liked reading about it.