Socratic Circle

         My thoughts surrounding this weeks socratic circle make me wonder, did the history we learned sway us as a youth and as a culture now-a-days to be more liberal. I am conservative myself and am quite astonished at how many comments were geared towards preserving liberalistic values. But those who say those things don't see them as liberal ideas, but rather as "protecting" the growing generation of any ideas being possibly embedded into them while in their youth.

        Which leads me into my thoughts of the subject matter, textbooks are changed and updated all of the time. But i think the argument in texas comes from the point that it's not what their putting in the new history books, it's why. My personal opinion is that our liberalistic ideas of how things should be run is something that we inherited just as the new generation would if the read the new history books. They would see nothing wrong with any of it.

       My guess is that you would say thats because they don't know the other side. But did we know know the other side? Or are we all in the same situation that the growing generation is possibly facing, only seeing one side? Or is it all the same but from a different perspective? It also makes me question regarding the single story. If the growing generation learns from this new perspective, will it help us as a nation to have them grow up and communicate, make decisions, and new laws together with those that received the same schooling that we did because then we would have two stories, two foundations to go off of. 

      My personal opinion of what their trying to do in texas is that they are trying to rebuild patriotism by cultivating the young minds of children to think in a different way. A more pro-American way. A right way? A wrong way? I don't know who is qualified to make that decision, but to understand the situation before we judge against the actions that they are trying to take to change a few things in their history books, maybe we should ask ourselves...are we being hypocrites by relying on our own single story? Do we care enough about the subject matter enough to take a step back and see it from a different view? Who's to say?