"It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many that are not so."
- Felix Okaye
Students hate history. When they list their favorite subjects, history always comes in last. They consider it the most irrelevant of twenty-one school subjects; bo-o-o-oring is the adjective most often applied.
But we people forgot the root of everything which is our History.
Every mentor, teacher, professor- a sir or a madam, should read this book even
students or shall i say every citizen shall read this book, for it reveals startling truths about myths and misfortune of American History.
- Felix Okaye
Students hate history. When they list their favorite subjects, history always comes in last. They consider it the most irrelevant of twenty-one school subjects; bo-o-o-oring is the adjective most often applied.
But we people forgot the root of everything which is our History.
Every mentor, teacher, professor- a sir or a madam, should read this book even
students or shall i say every citizen shall read this book, for it reveals startling truths about myths and misfortune of American History.
Professor James Loewen, the author shows in this master piece the
hidden embarassing combination of blind patriotism, mindldless
patriotism, sheer misfortune and outrigth lies of the several history
of teachers'.
This book thought provoking set aside all the ambiguity, passion,conflict and drama from American historty.
In ten extreme and supreme chapters, Loewen reveals the following. The US dropped
three times as many tons of explosives in Vietnam as it dropped in all threatens during World
war II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola,
not to find the mythical fountain of youth.
Woodrow Wilson, Know as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally
vetoed a clause on racial equality in the covenant of league of Nations, the first colony to legalize slavery
was not Virginia but Massachusetts.
Lastly,In response, he has written Lies My Teacher Told Me, in
part a telling critique of existing books but, more importantly, a
wonderful retelling of American history as it should - and could - be
taught to American students.
Beginning with pre-Columbian American history and ranging over
characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the
first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre, Loewen supplies the
conflict, suspense, unresolved drama, and connection with current-day
issues so appallingly missing from textbook accounts.
As I remembered that He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
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