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Related: About this forumApparently Spicer doesn't know who Frederick Douglass was either
&feature=youtu.beThis, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need Black History Month...
gademocrat7
(10,676 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,899 posts)without learning at least something about Frederick Douglass?
underpants
(182,949 posts)Now, ask him about some Dippin' Dots and he's off to the races.
blm
(113,110 posts)(( ))
Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)SS: "...and Dr Martin Luther King will be meeting with the President on... Friday? Can someone get me that info? Dr King will be remembered for this meeting."
ZOMBIES!!!!
underpants
(182,949 posts)He's done an amazing job
"I think he wants to highlight the contributions he has made," Spicer said
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)who is doing promising things up in Tuscaloosa.
underpants
(182,949 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)(Never mind reading the chapter.)
Totally anecdotal, of course... but in the five years I've been teaching college, I've seen a fair number of students (of all ages), otherwise intelligent and reasonably educated (at least on paper), have an ingrained idea that much of what is taught in schools is, by default, propaganda or useless trivia. At any rate they have an auto-reject on anything that doesn't fit their narrow ideas. And this is not limited to right-wingers, but they are usually the hardest to reach.
Anyway, they don't take that information seriously. Now, I teach graphic arts, so this doesn't come up a lot in my classes (usually). But there's still an attitude of "Why do we have to learn this?" whenever anything historical is mentioned.
This sounds exactly like the sort of non-answer I get when I hit my students with a pop-quiz on, say, the history and development of photography.
Q: "What was Henry Fox Talbot's major contribution to photography?"
A: "Henry Fox Talbot made many contributions to photography."
(shakes head sadly)
BuddyCa
(99 posts)they teached us good about the famous Lincoln-Douglass debates.
MFM008
(19,823 posts)or science.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)but I suspect it was someone who knew Spicer didn't know who Frederick Douglass was. Probably won a drink from one of the other reporters there for his effort.