Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein

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  apollo60
  March 4th, 2023
  

  

  Today’s students know little if anything about American History.
  I’m an immigrant that came here, from Europe, in 1951.
  I knew more about America’s history and our government than most of my classmates.
  I thank God each day that my parents brought my brothers and sisters to America, and the sacrifices they made to do so.

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  koloko
  March 4th, 2023
  

  All of the kids on the cover of this book will no doubt be murdered in a school shooting, if they haven’t been already… Then gun sales will go up… Part of the values and morals of the USA

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  booklovers89
  March 4th, 2023
  

  nice

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  Malachie520
  March 4th, 2023
  

  The Great American Story is kind of like Santa Claus. Little kids get so excited by the magic of Santa and don’t yet have the wherewithal to rationalize the story. Inevitably, they learn the truth about that magic and a piece of them dies. Would it be better to not be lied to and so never find out you’d been lied to? Arguments vary.

  The same can be said for the Great American Story. The furor going on in the U.S. right now with the ridiculous notion of Parents’ Rights when it comes to their free babysitters is the perception that learning about ‘bad’ history somehow makes kids feel guilty about who they are. I don’t agree since I was a kid and learned a lot of terrible things my Great Country has done (and continues to do *sigh*) and not once did I feel ashamed of myself for the actions of others. Appalled, yes. Angry and outraged? Yes. Sickened. Yes. But never ashamed of who I am because of it. Is it better to be like China where you’re fed what history you can learn, what search terms you’re allowed, what knowledge they’ll let you acquire just to go to university abroad and find out the truth?

  There’s merit in it, based on the last several decades of IP theft prevalent in that part of the world. So many people have come to the U.S., learned, studied, and either went back home or implanted themselves so they could funnel the knowledge and tech back home. They still love their homeland. Americans are no different. The sense of nationalism became ingrained so that it doesn’t matter to most Chinese what “freedoms” they don’t have. You don’t feel anything other Chinese in China [of course, if you’re already Chinese]. America will make sure you feel like an immigrant and it’s typically not positive.

  Purifying history for the sake of feelings is just another form of indoctrination, whether it’s telling the little white kid he’s guilty of oppressing a people or telling the same white kid that his ancestors came to this New World and formed this great country with hard work and tenacity. Both miss the point and don’t put context to the history. The kid should never feel guilty for what his ancestors may have done. He can appalled. Angry and outraged. Sickened. He can be part of the solution because he already wants to make our country better. He loves his country so much, he says the Pledge of Allegiance every morning with the rest of his elementary school class.

  *** I guess I had more to say than I thought. Thank you @rmoor for your consistent contributions in all manner of thinking.

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  pau11y
  March 4th, 2023
  

  So, does this little book contain anything about slavery, lynchings, internment camps, the exclusion act, stuffing brown children in dog kennels, or basically any sort of BS perpetrated by whites on everyone else not white?

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  monkeymill
  March 4th, 2023
  

  Sounds like carefully worded Critical Race Theory..

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  Datguy201
  March 4th, 2023
  

  @pau11y Wow white people are awesome.

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  412whistle
  March 5th, 2023
  

  @paul11y you do know Jews don’t consider themselves White, don’t ya? #Ye24

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  tenbenson
  March 5th, 2023
  

  @apollo60

  Of course you didn’t arrive in the USA from Europe in 1951!

  You arrived on Audiobookbay a perfectly formed little Trumpkin troll in around 2015 where you were put to work!

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  eyeballs
  March 6th, 2023
  

  

  Propaganda garbage in - garbage out..
  this will be a liberal karen’s favorite book

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein
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  dave5050j
  March 10th, 2023
  

  @Malachie620 you’re spot on!

  Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story - Timothy S. Goeglein

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