Journal entry 6
After reading a young people’s history of the United States, I feel like I have lived a lie all of my life. This has made me think that people are basically shaping our minds the way they please. People who write our history books are being benefited while the students learn misleading information. This makes me think of my future students and me as a teacher. Elementary students usually learn information the same way as I did. We all believe and learned that Christopher Columbus was the first to sight land while it was actually Rodrigo. Some people believed while some still believe that Christopher was a very pacific person and he is almost thought of as a hero. Students learn all of this misinformation but eventually they learn the truth. This makes we wonder whether my future students will come to believe that it’s fine to lie. If the people who write our books are being allowed to tell us lies, will they think its ok for us to tell lies too? If the government allows these types of history books in our schools, are they supporting the spread of these lies? It is unbelievable to think that we trust our schools and the people behind our education, and they disappoint us by basically forcing teachers to lie to their students. We are the source of misinformation and through them; the lies continue to be part of our history. I find this so immoral because students should go to school to learn, and by learning I mean learning the truth. The lies in history textbooks should come to an end.
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