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Originally posted by Semicollegiate
Instead, English instruction is about persuasion first and truth whenever.
One reason to suspect a hidden agenda.
Originally posted by ImNotACylon
This story is ridiculous.
Any reasonable person can understand what it is the teacher was trying to do with this writing exercise.
Yes, Nazis were bad. We all know this. That doesn't mean the subject should be ignored or there aren't valuable lessons to be learned from them.
Remember - This stuff did happen. The Nazis in Germany did vilify the Jews (and others)
I'm just sick and tired of this garbage.
People need to learn to accept reality, understand history, and stop being dishonest.
Originally posted by burntheships
Originally posted by ImNotACylon
This story is ridiculous.
Any reasonable person can understand what it is the teacher was trying to do with this writing exercise.
Yes, Nazis were bad. We all know this. That doesn't mean the subject should be ignored or there aren't valuable lessons to be learned from them.
No one is saying there are not lessons to be learned.
Remember - This stuff did happen. The Nazis in Germany did vilify the Jews (and others)
Yes, and this is one major problem, why did the teacher focus, and falsly so only
on the Jewish?
I'm just sick and tired of this garbage.
People need to learn to accept reality, understand history, and stop being dishonest.
Yes, me too. If history is to be taught, let it be the whole truth.
If it is an english assignment using history, let it be done with accurate techniques,
and compete historical perspective, not some dumbed down wikipedia version.
Originally posted by Semicollegiate
reply to post by burntheships
The newer, more fully applied and more precise monitoring could lead to actual "manufacturing" of desireable personalities. (Maybe already happening since the university system started at the same time as psychological science.)
Think like a Nazi?
Yet, that is exactly what the assingment was, to make an "abhorrent argument", pledging
loyalty to to the Third Reich. Accordingly, as part of the exercise, the students were
encouraged to argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda.