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UK: What history should children be taught? The seeding of amnesia is the undoing of citizenship.

By Alliance Alert

Historian and government adviser Simon Schama writing in the Guardian: "Who is it that needs history the most? Our children, of course: the generations who will either pass on the memory of our disputatious liberty or be not much bovvered about the doings of obscure ancestors, and go back to Facebook for an hour or four. Unless they can be won to history, their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of eternal Now: the flickering instant that's gone as soon as it has arrived. They will thus remain, as Cicero warned, permanent children, for ever innocent of whence they have come and correspondingly unconcerned or, worse, fatalistic about where they might end up. The seeding of amnesia is the undoing of citizenship." Daniel Hannan adds his own list of six key themes.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).