Why do we teach little kids lies?

[Boris Godunov]

The Mexicans lost no more than 400 men at the Alamo.

[Dan Severn]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Europeans "discovered" the Americas. They did not.

HAAAAARRRRR!!!! TH' BRUDDERHOOD O' TH' COAST AN' TH' LOOSE CANNON ALLIANCE WILL SEND YE ALL BACK TA EUROPE!!!

[Adalbertus]

I think it's high time we stop propagating the idea Europeans "discovered" the Americas. They did not.

They did - for them. There are others who discovered it before. As there was no communication between those groups, America has been discovered twice (or three times if you add the Vikings to the game, of which Columbus probably had no idea).

[HazieDaVampire]

the first ever sex ed lesson in junier school that i had was the best! I think about 7 out of 25 kids in my class fell of their chairs in laughter.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The thread is about how schools continue to teach historical lies, half-truths and misconceptions. Here comes a poster talking about those, but in the same post continues the misconceptions by implying history in N. America didn't start until the Europeans arrived.

You did your best to make it look like that with your creative quoting, but you left out a key sentence from Jaguar Warrior's post.

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
Also they totally distort the colonial age. They act like the Pilgrims were the first people to settle the Americas, despite the fact that Jamestown already existed, and Spain had been in the Americas for ages.

For the crime of skewing somebody's post with creative quoting in order to imply that they meant something which they clearly did not, I dub thee "One-Trick Pony Extraordinaire" and subject you to the dreaded "rolleyes" treatment.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by HazieDaVampire
the first ever sex ed lesson in junier school that i had was the best! I think about 7 out of 25 kids in my class fell of their chairs in laughter.

That happened in my junior high as well (it was actually more like 20 out of 25 kids), even though the lesson was completely accurate. Let's face it: sex is damn funny.

[axi]

For example, the Battle of Marathon was a hopeless battle, but it delayed the Persians long enough for the Athenians to evacuate.

Greek textbooks say that the battle of Marathon was a victory which ended Darius's expedition and stopped Persian agression against the Greeks for about 10 years. The battle of Thermopylae OTOH...

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by loinburger


The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.



Some godforsaken piece of **** swamp. They had a penchant for malaria.

So no one can answer my question about where John Smith landed and the name of the three ships carrying the expedition? Well then, you're all a bunch of hypocrites. If you can't answer a few simple basic questions about American history you have no right to criticise what the younger generation is being taught!

[Dan Severn]

Originally posted by loinburger


That happened in my junior high as well (it was actually more like 20 out of 25 kids), even though the lesson was completely accurate. Let's face it: sex is damn funny.

Aye, 'tis universal.

It takes an adult brain not ta' see just how goofy th' whole setup be.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by axi


Greek textbooks say that the battle of Marathon was a victory which ended Darius's expedition and stopped Persian agression against the Greeks for about 10 years. The battle of Thermopylae OTOH...

IIRC it was in the battle of Thermopylae that pairs of Spartan lovers tied themselves together on the premise that in doing so they would fight all that much harder. The result of the battle was that the myth of the superiority of homosexuals as warriors was forever shattered.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
If you can't answer a few simple basic questions about American history you have no right to criticise what the younger generation is being taught!

Hey, I am the younger generation!

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by loinburger


Hey, I am the younger generation!

You're under 12 years old? I don't believe it.

[Dan Severn]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


You're under 12 years old? I don't believe it.

I do.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
You're under 12 years old? I don't believe it.

Oh, no, I'm 22. I thought you meant "younger generation" as "everybody who isn't an old fart like me," which is how I'm used to hearing it.

[yaroslav]

Originally posted by Dan Severn


I prefer the Battle of San Jacinto since:

1) We won that one

2) Santa Ana was dressed up as a women when he ran away, IIRC. Maybe that was Jeff Davis...

3) It exposes the folly of Hispanic culture. (A siesta when the enemy is near? Great idea...)

It folly means what Babylon.com tell me (you can see: my english is not vey good), I can only say that I'm getting tired of people that feel free to offend me only becasue I grow up on a Hispanic country.

EDIT: Babylon translation was NOT correct. So I was on a error. But as matter of humilty, I will not edit the post, so everybody can see that I was wrong