Thread: Education, education, education.................

... rather than searing condemnations of schools, society, youngsters and all their works! Nowadays, were the Sun to discover your friend's ignorance, they'd doubtless run a "1 in 30 children think Napoleon was English" headline. The Skin

I have a book, "Born for Joy", by Mary Wedd, published in 1969, and dealing with the author's experiences of teaching in a village school in the early 1960s. In one place, she writes: 'The children's ideas about recent history were confused in the extreme. One child asked me if Winston Churchill was the King of England. Another thought he was a survival from the Civil War! I believe it was Karen... who later did a...

The survey, conducted by Erskine, which takes care of around 1,350 war veterans, asked 2,000 children aged nine to 15 a number of questions about the Second World War and got some astonishing results. One in six of respondents said they thought that Auschwitz is a theme park based on the Second World War. One in 20 said that the Holocaust was the celebration of the end of the war, whilst one in ten said they believed that the SS were Enid...

Really would expect grown-ups to know that WW1 ended in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles, and that Pearl Harbor wasn't a suicide attack. US lies about WMDs seem to have worked on the kids though.

There's nothing like some good ol' moral panic to fill the gaps in some shite newspapers.