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Junior year my US history teacher spent close to 2 months on the Flappers and the 1920's. WW2 was covered in 4 days. Cuban missile crisis was covered by watching "Thirteen Days".

[quote="Special_K"]Junior year my US history teacher spent close to 2 months on the Flappers and the 1920's. WW2 was covered in 4 days. Cuban missile crisis was covered by watching "Thirteen Days".

I'd hate to think I'm the only jerk who is thinking this but...

Naw, you're just a jerk :)

I did understand the material we did not cover because I did research it.

lol @ Texas. The Texas Board of Education removed Thomas Jefferson from texts books that talked about the enlightenment period and replaced him with John Calvin for a more religious view...

[quote="Bordicon"]About universities, they are the gem of this country and it is sad that there are citizens of this country that don't take advantage of it. Sure don't go to school, don't try to make your life and those around you better and let this resource die off. I went to a university and I also hated my humanity courses but it was a great forum for debate. If there was a emotionally charge tree hugger that had gross assumptions, they would get an ear full from me. If there was a religious fundy, they got shot down. The reason this is important is not because of my view but there is a place where one can test and grow your own views. For example, most of us are surround ourselves with ppl with the same POV, so its always preaching to the choir and nothing changes.[/quote]

im in high school, and we spent 3 weeks on WW1, 4 weeks on WW2, and 4 weeks on the cold war, we actually got into detail about a few subject but for the most part we brushed on topics. we did here alot about the beril wall, and the berlin bloakcades though. and i go to a public school, i was suprised we spent so long on theses topics

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[quote="medic23"]oh college how i want you to start now! i cant wait to tear into these hippie fucks.[/quote]

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My english teacher last year... She went on a rant about how American military action was useless and a waste of her tax dollars. She went on to insult anyone who has joined the military since the second world war. She gave a very enthusiatic bit about how stupid and useless people who served in Vietnam were. She claimed that if they signed up it's because they were ignorant to what would happen, and people who were drafted should have just refused to go. She then started to talk about how all veterans were useless now. I stood up in class and cut her off there. 15 minutes of yelling later I was sent to see the VP for "Miss-informing students, disrupting class, and spewing patriotic garbage."

An education is the single most important thing you can have!

[quote="BlaineG"]I'd hate to think I'm the only jerk who is thinking this but...

[quote="sgt_muller"]For example, in grammar school I was taught about the "War of Northern Aggression" and how the free States were set upon without provocation while attending classes in Florida. Moving back north, the Civil War was taught that it was about slavery. Only when you read about the men of the era, and the actual text written of the time, you realize that it was (imo) neither, but an economic and defense related war. Freeing the slaves (while a correct decision) was a tactical move to wage Total War and deprive the Confederacy of it's cheap labor force.[/quote]

[quote="Bordicon"]The reason this is important is not because of my view but there is a place where one can test and grow your own views. For example, most of us are surround ourselves with ppl with the same POV, so its always preaching to the choir and nothing changes.[/quote]

You find that most History professors know very little about WWII. Years ago a good friend of mine, also a WWII buff, took a "Military History" class at the local JC.