oldfart
Older than dirt
When my kid comes home from school I want her to be able to explain how she solved a math problem or parsed a sentence. I don't want to hear that republicans want kids to die or want dirty air and dirty water. It's not just the universities. Their brainwashing starts in kindergarten.
One of the purposes of elementary school was to teach love of country and patriotism. To this end history was bent to achieve this purpose. Would you be against bending history to achieve those purposes today? Should students be taught the truth as best we know it or should schools bend the truth to create better citizens and maybe a better America?
Good point.
Personally I think that teaching children anything false is a bad idea. So most of the slant in early education comes from sins of omission. We don't talk much about slavery or race relations, or American wars fought for less than noble purposes. All of the Founding Fathers were saints (except the ones we don't talk about). Society is held together with a series of socially useful myths.
But if our objective is to produce thoughtful and knowledgeable citizens, at some point we must supplement those myths with a more realistic look at our history and institutions. College is too late for this, as not everyone will go to college. We don't do much of it in high school, because it would be politically unpopular. I think it should start in middle school and expand each year thereafter.
SPAM WARNING. I'm fond of the "Lies my Teacher Told Me" series by Jim Loewen, who is now retired and needs the royalties. Please buy his books, they are also good reads.