re: #232 lawhawk

For them, 300 is a documentary. /wish I was kidding, but considering the sorry state of education and knowledge of all things historical…

It’s also a matter of importance. What we think is terribly essential isn’t to them. I can think of similar things with my parents —events and topics that had no bearing and still have no bearing on my life.

Not to harp on the subject, but birth control is a big one. My moms generation never considered it in their lives. (Catholic) So it never figured into anything they thought or remembered. “So and so didn’t have to have all those children” —well, yes Mom, she did. Shit like that.

Or Dad tell me about stuff living without Rural Electricity and water from the well. I don’t need and will never need to know this stuff. Maybe if had become a civil engineer or worked at a water facility …

What happened in Carthage or Egypt or Greece 2000 years ago isn’t going to matter to most of these kids.

I’d like to think everyone could get a Classical Education and learn the ancient languages, but it is probably more important they learn to communicate with people on the other side of the planet and learn to accept other cultures.