OK - but you learn from history, not edit it. Wouldn't it be better to read Dahl and point out to kids why it's wrong in places rather than change what's written? Learn, not erase.
OK - but you learn from history, not edit it. Wouldn't it be better to read Dahl and point out to kids why it's wrong in places rather than change what's written? Learn, not erase.
yes. But that relies on the access to that book being limited such that the first time they read it, there's someone there to explain
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
History is just that.........what existed in the past. We should learn from it rather than trying to pretend it didn't happen. Sadly, looking around the world we seem incapable of doing that. We still have wars, we still have slavery, we still have racism , we still have obscenely rich and obscenely poor. we still have dictators and so it goes on. Improved education doesn't appear to have made a great deal of difference in many circumstances and no guarantee that it lasts once children get out into the adult world. Wonder what people in 200 years time ( presuming humans are still around ) will think of the crap which goes on today ?
That seems a little unfair @pansyface . By then, the evil men who are running the world at the moment will be long gone. Maybe they will have been replaced by decent, enlightened human beings.
OK - but you learn from history, not edit it. Wouldn't it be better to read Dahl and point out to kids why it's wrong in places rather than change what's written? Learn, not erase.
yes. But that relies on the access to that book being limited such that the first time they read it, there's someone there to explain
I'm not sure we let our kids just read anything - you tend to read with kids. So you're constantly explaining 'stuff'. But reading anything is always thus eh? Should adults read the Star without a health warning? At what age do you think kids have an inkling about NOT being racist, sexist and generally being nice without calling someone some derogative term? Aren't they just life skills that exist outside of reading as well?
People believe Boris, Trump, Putin....and they're adults - and that engenders racial issues, misogynism, homophobia doesn't it.
When an actor claims that the Prince in Sleeping Beauty was a stalker and assaulted Sleeping Beauty by kissing her I really do feel the will to live slowly slipping away. Said actor still took the fee to play the part.
I never let any "child" read the bible or any other, supposed "holy" book until they were adults and had the choice of whether to read it or not. Religion is most evil form of brainwashing ever created by man. It's been used for millenia to control and to excuse the greatest atrocities committed by anyone.
To balance that up....I'm not sure 'political' doctrines haven't been used in the same way. You just don't realise it all yet. When we look back in 1000 years and see what people got away with because of this or that ideal... Religion was just one abused power...and it's all just about that power - call it religion, politics, commerce. Power is all consuming and corrupting - it is the Ring. You can't wield it without being affected. Trump kept and keeps on trying to get back his 'precious'. Boris did the same. Putin is trying now. Maggie did it with the Falklands. Blair and WOMD. All politicians end up believing the spin that their spin doctors spiral around them.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We still have wars, we still have slavery, we still have racism , we still have obscenely rich and obscenely poor. we still have dictators and so it goes on. Improved education doesn't appear to have made a great deal of difference in many circumstances and no guarantee that it lasts once children get out into the adult world.
Wonder what people in 200 years time ( presuming humans are still around ) will think of the crap which goes on today ?
Religion is most evil form of brainwashing ever created by man.
It's been used for millenia to control and to excuse the greatest atrocities committed by anyone.