Should they teach 9/11?
Question seen on Quora:

Should they require teaching 9/11 in schools?

My answer is No.

First and foremost: Schools shouldn't be teaching any "facts" at all. Schools should only be training SKILLS. All "facts" are false by the time they get processed into school curricula. SKILLS CAN'T LIE.

Second: History curricula are especially awful because school boards and state committees are INEVITABLY political about history. In recent years those boards have become perfectly political about EVERYTHING, which is why NO "facts" should be in school. When I took history in 1965, the book stopped at 1945 and the teacher barely made it to 1918. Nothing about Korea or Vietnam, even though the male students were about to get drafted for Vietnam after graduation.

Third: Even if we pretend that the books COULD contain plain facts as sorted by the best historians, we've never had ANY facts about 9/11.

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In 1965, VE day was twenty years old. Right now, 9/11 is twenty years old.

Let's compare.

Leaving aside questions of motive, the basic facts about WW2 were well known by everyone at the time. Nobody could be fooled by Deepstate lies because most people had either been IN Asia and Europe fighting against Japan and Germany, or had been working IN weapons factories. The news during WW2 was ACCURATE and balanced, thanks to the Fairness Doctrine.

Leaving aside questions of motive, the basic facts about 9/11 were INSTANTLY replaced by Deepstate myth. The most basic fact was NEVER STATED AT ALL. Media knew what to say in advance, and never let the basic fact leak out, though it was patently obvious without the media.

BASIC FACT: SAUDI ATTACKED US, with considerable aid from CIA and FBI.

We immediately "learned" that we had been attacked by Afghanistan and Iraq.

The 1945 equivalent of this distortion would be: Pearl Harbor was attacked by Russian bombers.

Deepstate tried to build this myth after 1945, gradually painting Japan out of the Axis and painting Russia into the Axis. But the repaint didn't fully remove the facts, and hasn't aged well.

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So in both cases it's better that school "history" courses don't even try to handle recent history. They would only provide atrocious lies.

My first point is the only thing that matters. Schools shouldn't waste one precious minute on "facts".

SKILLS CAN'T LIE.

DIRECT PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH PHYSICAL REALITY CAN'T LIE.

Labels: Experiential education

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