Teachers not allowed to teach the holocaust anymore?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Sandman
The Israeli-Arab conflict and the Crusades are not important enough to warrant any teaching time.

You're kidding, right?

[Sandman]

What's so important about the Crusades? They're one series of medieval wars amongst hundreds.

In the context of the Twentieth Century, the Arab-Israeli wars are similarly unimportant. Unless you're going to devote your entire history curriculum to war (doubtless this is exactly what some societies do), you're only going to be able to give the most uninformative, cursory glaces to these subjects.

[Kuciwalker]

I was talking about the Israeli-Arab conflict. I'd say it's tremendously important to learn about because it's in the news so much. Presumably you want your students to be able to understand current events better.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Spiffor

French unis generally suck, unless you're in medecine, or in a selective "superior school" (which generally are public).

I don't agree. The reason people find it difficult when to move from a system to another is, simply said, that they're different and it takes time to adjust.

When I was studying in Montreal, French exchange students would always tell me that they found it difficult there, when I could BS my way out of a course with a B+, and get a sure-fire A if I worked just a bit.

When I moved to France, I started getting terrible grades, even though I worked much more than I used to in Montreal.

French universities are just fine when it comes to profs. If you're studying a soft subject, that's all you need. Of course, underfunding makes scientific studies a bit more problematic.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I was talking about the Israeli-Arab conflict. I'd say it's tremendously important to learn about because it's in the news so much. Presumably you want your students to be able to understand current events better.

There's modern studies for that. The Israeli-Arab conflict is over-reported anyway.

[Kuciwalker]

I never said it wasn't, just that something so reported ought to be given a decent treatment in school.

And we never had a "modern studies" class per se.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Sandman


There's modern studies for that.

It's called "Current Events class" in there here parts...

[Odin]

This crap is directly the results of the so-called "Multiculturalism" (which is not really Multiculturalism but Cultural Relativist, Postmodernist BS) that keeps getting pushed on Europeans.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Odin
This crap is directly the results of the so-called "Multiculturalism" (which is not really Multiculturalism but Cultural Relativist, Postmodernist BS) that keeps getting pushed on Europeans.

If you repeat that line enough, maybe it'll become true