Dr Taylor, thanks this is an outstanding essay and one that hits home. For the masses of people to not know our own history is tragic and makes it extremely difficult for us to maneuver into the future. These days I pinch myself wanting to wake up from this horrible bad dream in America we are all facing. I ask myself is this the world I want to live in!
When political power is the goal, knowledge is always the victim, and it is our children who pay the price. It was a warning I persistently made to my classes while I was a classroo, professor, and oftimes bore the brunt of administration telling me stop. It seems now we must take it on our own to learn the lessons of history through reading scholarly works about the past, or the primary sources, and let it all sink in. However, in the end, we must use the lessons of the past to repair what is wrong so that future generations will have a better time than we ae now.
If "We the people, in order to create a more perfect union is the exordium, "We are a flawed people who somehow created a more perfect nation" is the perordium.
Dr Taylor, thanks this is an outstanding essay and one that hits home. For the masses of people to not know our own history is tragic and makes it extremely difficult for us to maneuver into the future. These days I pinch myself wanting to wake up from this horrible bad dream in America we are all facing. I ask myself is this the world I want to live in!
When political power is the goal, knowledge is always the victim, and it is our children who pay the price. It was a warning I persistently made to my classes while I was a classroo, professor, and oftimes bore the brunt of administration telling me stop. It seems now we must take it on our own to learn the lessons of history through reading scholarly works about the past, or the primary sources, and let it all sink in. However, in the end, we must use the lessons of the past to repair what is wrong so that future generations will have a better time than we ae now.
If "We the people, in order to create a more perfect union is the exordium, "We are a flawed people who somehow created a more perfect nation" is the perordium.
That was the whole point of the post!