Tom Welsh (@tomwelsh441836): "'What most Americans know they have learned from movies and TV. Hardly any Americans read books, much less serious ones. Back in those days when I was a university professor, I recall a lecture I gave on the Russian revolution. A student interrupted me and said, “that’s not the …"

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'What most Americans know they have learned from movies and TV. Hardly any Americans read books, much less serious ones. Back in those days when I was a university professor, I recall a lecture I gave on the Russian revolution. A student interrupted me and said, “that’s not the way [it] happened in the movie.”

'At first I thought he was making a joke, but he was serious. He was challenging my explanation based on years of study with a Hollywood movie'.

- Paul Craig Roberts paulcraigroberts.org/20…

nosey parker

Mar 26

Reagan removed all but American history (according to himself) and World History (that affected the US so very little real World History) first from the Californian public school curriculum and then the entire nation's school curriculum. I don't think Modern European History was taught in the U.S. in most schools at all. Certainly Middle…

Mar 26

6:33 PM

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