Teaching History
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Since the beginning of our infancy, we our taught certain things in a rather discrete way so that the content being told isn't too vulgar or too strong for our young minds. As we get older we start learning more and more and by the time of our teenage years we realize the real and true meaning of everything that they had taught us before. For example, our parents, when we are young, tell us about Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny, ect. These are just simple stories they tell us to enlighten our imagination. But we soon come to realize that its not real. In kindergarten I remember they taught us about Christopher Columbus and how he discovered America, and when the Europeans had dinner with the Indians; what we call Thanksgiving. But is that really the whole true story? Could it be possible that there is more to what we have been taught through most of our childhood? Well, now that I have learned more and have done more research, now I know that there is more to every to every story and I started asking myself why they hadn't just told us in the beginning. Why don't our schools confront us with the truth?..