In a sense, we choose our own history, or more accurately, we select those vistas of history for our examinations which promise us the greatest satisfaction, and we have had little appetite to explore the possibility that our founding father was a black man” (p.
“As a subject for research, the possibility of African discovery of America has never been a tempting one for American historians. Keller becomes a mythic figure, the ‘woman who overcame’ - but for what? There is no content! Just look what she accomplished, we’re exhorted - yet we haven’t a clue as to what that really was” (p. “We teach Keller as an ideal, not a real person, to inspire our young people to emulate her. Another was the release of America’s first epic motion picture” (p. The tone set by the administration was one cause. “White Americans engaged in a new burst of racial violence during and immediately after Wilson’s presidency. “When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves” (p. They don’t pose them seriously” (pg viii).
Textbooks pose scores of questions like this. Otherwise students may falsely conclude that all opinions are somehow equal. “Critical thinking requires assembling data to back up one’s opinion. The more appropriate title would be, “Lies my Textbook Told me.” Otherwise, holy shit!
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