I think I mean that if we accept that our history lessons/education was loaded by a specific bias, why would we think that teaching the new young through the prism of a different bias is better.
We don't have access to our own inner history with any accuracy. Wouldn't it be more honest to lay in front of students that "history" is the past viewed from today's perspective. Lay all the perspectives in front of them so they realise it's such a complex thing that we can actually have knowledge of almost nothing. Being so muddy of course goes against the very thrust of education which is to build up the belief in people that they have knowledge when in fact they have opinions (mostly others'opinions). So to educate to the point of self recognition of ignorance would be a real revolution. But if achieved it would surely shift the focus to how society believes it should behave now, rather than endless varying reruns of the past.
Our education system does for everyone what Freudian analysis does for individuals...Locks people into endless analysis rather than action in the moment.
Phew!
Just an opinion of course..
Nick
