Does every country teach its children a whitewashed version of history or is it just the ones that commit genocide?
@MnemosyneSinger @sb I'd say that every country. According to Polish history schoolbooks the noblemen and clergy were good people, and all of Poland's neighbors were evil.
@mawhrin @MnemosyneSinger @sb This is the impression I got from skimming through current schoolbooks. Good teachers can and do protect us from bad books.
@szescstopni tbh i can imagine the czarnek ministry working hard on selling the party-approved fable written by the lowest bidder or some associates in need for cash infusion, but let's not go overboard, because it's easy to miss the actual problem: teaching history to kids is fucking hard, and in most countries you don't actively work on giving pupils ptsd just from the basic courses.
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I'm just reading a history of Wrocław (I'm up to about 1500 CE).
Some of those nobles and clergy seem not so good, though some of them seem not so Polish, with not a lot of correlation between the two factors.
(Microcosm, by Davies & Moorhouse)
@szescstopni all countries teach whitewashed history, but what you're saying is not what i remember, even from the primary school. my commiserations, seems i had better teachers, or tend to exaggerate less.
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