Loewen

After reading "Lies My Teacher Told Me" I started thinking about my highschool history class. It surprised me how much I agree with everything being said. History was my least favorite course in high school, even though it was always an easy A. The text book was by far my biggest text book. I hated the end of chapter reviews. Each chapter sounded the same. I procrastinated studying for it so I would just cram everything in at once and then forget it after the test. It was never interesting because as the reading said everything always turns out okay. The United States always pulls through, always does what's right, and is full of heroes. After realizing all of this and thinking about this I felt disappointed in the education system. Making everyone heroes is hypocritical to me. Along with this if so many students dislike history I do not understand why we do not change the system, and make textbooks that tell the history as it really happened. I understand why it is important to try and make kids grow up patriotic about the United States and proud of their country, but at the same time I think that a change should be made so that everything is not so idealized.