Originally Posted by
aroa
Are teachers these days to provide knowledge, or are they now just pipelines to include the latest fad into any subject.
Before early humans left Africa they almost got wiped out due severe drought, but survived. Even today the weather has variables but I don’t see that as a requirement when researching the history of the printing press.
Politicians and others repeat the mantras “global warming”, “rising sea levels”, “ more severe cyclones” because repetition reinforces the lie, so people think it must be true.
Nothing to do with "Todays" education standards, History has always been a topic where the school/state decides what topics are to be offered. They can either offer topics that lend themselves to certain points of view or what they think will be popular and selected. The overall point in this field is to promote interest so that the student starts asking their own questions in regard to what happened and how, if the state gets involved and selects topics it's most likely to be a propaganda angle. In any case proper education means the student comes away asking questions of what they have learned, not parroting what they have been told. This leads to different points of view, which is fine if you have evidence supporting it, you can then debate what is more correct. What I see lately is a lot of hate towards different points of view rather than real constructive debate, which is usually the domain of the il-educated as they can not prove their angle so try to destroy the opposition instead.
BTW climate change is talking about sustained change in environmental conditions, not fluctuations. History records many such changes during the length of human existence, and the science says we are going through a warming shift now. The debate is not whether the climate is changing, it is more about whether we are affecting/causing it, and therefore can we change the outcome. If we can't then we have to adapt our way of life to the changes or make technological advances to cope with it. Most of us were not alive when the true pollution and grime from the Industrial revolution was in full swing, the smog and soot from coal and wood powered everything. I saw a post the other day asking why they made the interior of the Millennium Falcon an odd stained yellowy brown color, most don't remember that old plastics faded to a dirty color and the yellowy-brown stained walls in rooms/places that had heavy smoking rates in them. It's easy to forget the bad over generations that no longer have to deal with such because previous generations took action and stopped it.