Reply #34: Cut out the Classics, then. The other teachers on this thread are criticising me for not giving them [View All]

A ---ing dissertation.

** Quetzalcoatl theory highly disputed. Cortez won because he had
GUNS, HORSES and 100,000 highly-pissed off Mexicans on his side.
And he still almost was wiped out in the Aztec capital.

** Great Books belong in HS. Classics belong in University.

** Why? Because we waste too much time indoctrinating students
about (vague, poorly defined) "Western Values" that we supposedly
inherited directly from the Abncient Greeks when, in fact,
WASP civilization has little in common with the Ancient Greeks.

** "Every. Damn. Bit. of world history" is NEVER construed to include
precolonial / prewritten history of ANY non-Western country.
The so-called "birth of civilization" in the Mediterranean
is always taken to be the exception. Why teach kids about
Agamemnon and not Lobengula? Hmmm?