America has the most expensive, comprehensive public education system in all of human history. And what do we get for it?
Not much!
This video is 14 minutes long, but you’ll be groaning long before that. These Americans KNOW NOTHING. Really–not a thing. Their country’s history means nothing to them. They might as well be living in a walk-in freezer.
How long can sheer ignorance support a modern state?
I don’t think finding out will be much fun.
When I was in grade school, I rolled my eyes when they taught us about American History, and the acts of the patriots whom sacrificed so much to establish the US as an independent country. Like so many, I failed to appreciate just how amazing these events were.
Over the years, as I gained life experience and especially as I met and interacted with people from other parts of the world, I came to realize that I took for granted freedoms that were unheard of in much of the world. It was the legal system, but that legal system derived from something much deeper, a people who sought not only freedom, but also justice. The American people came here because they sought freedom and justice.
It happened in my family, from immigrant grandparents on one side of the family, to separatists fleeing the hegemony of the Church of England on the other side; all had the common goal of building lives of self reliance and freedom in this nation.
Born in the post WW II baby boom, I was aware that we had it much better in the US than many places, where countries were rebuilding after the war, but now, there is prosperity in many places and I’ve noticed that they have developed much like the US. It’s simple, when people are free, they tend to want the same sorts of things.
I pray for my nation, every day. May our freedoms continue.
Amen–and let’s try harder to deserve it.
I just tried to leave a comment reminding us that for these videos there may have been a lot of correct answers that didn’t make the cut, but I have little doubt that most young people today don’t know much history because it simply isn’t being taught in government schools.
However, my comment disappeared like almost all my other comments lately. If this one shows up, that means WordPress will accept only comments sent from my phone, not from my computer.
The lack of American history and civics has hurt us badly, as a society.
That’s the understatement of the week.
Yes, this one has shown up all right.
You’re right, though–it’d be easy to make this video if you just got rid of the right answers and only showed the silly ones. I have a hard time remembering that.
During our Patriotic Quotes trivia game last night at our party, it was very revealing how much senior citizens have forgotten early American history. I let them have it (in a playful way) that those who do not learn from the past are doomed to commit the same mistakes. And boy was that Harry S. Truman a bigot.
We don’t pay enough attention to our history, and that’s a fact. I still remember (I was five at the time) my mother reciting “The Midnight ride of Paul Revere.” She had it by heart, the whole thing.
Here is a history question concerning America.
Which war proportionately cost more lives than any other war in America’s history, and loaded the survivors with crippling debt?
King Philip’s War.
King Philip’s War (1675-1678) was a devastating conflict in 17th-century New England between English colonists and Native American tribes, primarily the Wampanoag led by Metacom, also known as King Philip. The war was triggered by escalating tensions over land and resources, and it resulted in significant loss of life and destruction on both sides.
That information I learned from chapter 12 of the 1977 book “The Light and the Glory” written by Peter Marshall & David Manuel. That book, about America’s Christian history I highly recommend.
Here is a history question concerning America.
Which war proportionately cost more lives than any other war in America’s history, and loaded the survivors with crippling debt?
King Philip’s War.
King Philip’s War (1675-1678) was a devastating conflict in 17th-century New England between English colonists and Native American tribes, primarily the Wampanoag led by Metacom, also known as King Philip. The war was triggered by escalating tensions over land and resources, and it resulted in significant loss of life and destruction on both sides.
That information I learned from chapter 12 of the 1977 book “The Light and the Glory” written by Peter Marshall & David Manuel. That book, about America’s Christian history I highly recommend.