It's been said that history is written by the winners. The winners of war and life. From history we can learn what the winner's have to say about the past. "History" has the word "story" in it after all. Not to say that all the history textbooks in the world are propaganda, but that sometimes they may not be 100% true. After all, if history is written by the winners, then it will always be missing the tales of the losers.
To better our futures we must learn from the past so we do not repeat mistakes. Yet what good is their to learn from lies or massaged truths. How can one teach a lie to one's own students? Ethically it's wrong, but the ink has already dried on the chronicles of the past and cannot be rewritten. This cannot be helped.
In class on Wednesday, we read an interesting poem pertaining to a history that taught his own history to protect the innocence of his students. These little tyrants, however, were far from the angels they portrayed themselves to be. He was blind to his class. He was now a "winner" of history.. He wrote his own books and passed it down to his youth. As he worried about their innocence they beat each other up and break their glasses. As he lied about the past to protect their present innocence, he destroyed their future.
History:the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.
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