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The issue, dear professor, is clear. From whatever physical evidence we do have of the people in question, it is clear that people like you have been drip feeding people lie me carefulky concocted version of what you call history..it suits your and your ilks’ narrative.
An example – being a native Begalurean, I learnt history of Ktaka inside out. I grew up learning how wonderful Tipu was…how great a leader etc etc..the battles he won, how he fought the British. Imagine my surprise when I learnt, two decades later, from the interest and from the debates around us all, that he also did quite a few unsavoury and not so ‘leaderlike’ things…the question is – why do you folks not just teach history as it was without trying to build it up into what is isnt?
And now you blame everyone for being shocked at how much they grew up not knowing? YOu want us to suspend thinking for ourselves and just be thought-zombied by your ilk? I feel sorry for the generations if students that have been treated like zombies. I can only fight for a better education for my children,
The issue, dear professor, is clear. From whatever physical evidence we do have of the people in question, it is clear that people like you have been drip feeding people lie me carefulky concocted version of what you call history..it suits your and your ilks’ narrative.
An example – being a native Begalurean, I learnt history of Ktaka inside out. I grew up learning how wonderful Tipu was…how great a leader etc etc..the battles he won, how he fought the British. Imagine my surprise when I learnt, two decades later, from the interest and from the debates around us all, that he also did quite a few unsavoury and not so ‘leaderlike’ things…the question is – why do you folks not just teach history as it was without trying to build it up into what is isnt?
And now you blame everyone for being shocked at how much they grew up not knowing? YOu want us to suspend thinking for ourselves and just be thought-zombied by your ilk? I feel sorry for the generations if students that have been treated like zombies. I can only fight for a better education for my children,