Lies My Teacher Told Me By James W. Loewen 1.
According to Loewen, teachers in high school spend time teaching students little accurate information on American history. He feels that teachers today concentrate more on inaccurate information than accurate information. He blames the publishers, approval boards, authors, school boards and the poor measure directed in assessing quality measures towards employing skilled teachers. In the book, there are two most important points that the author has raised: the overwhelming positive history and the idea of pleasing the majority. In his work, the author analyzed several books; in 1994 he analyzed twelve books and realized that the books are written to illustrate how the history of America is uplifting. …show more content…
Loewen talks about the Vietnam War an example of the Americans history what should be remembered and what is inaccurate. Textbooks tend to water down history by concentrating on illustrating the present to students. It would have been appropriate for authors to use pictures depicting war instead of the troop being chanted up by President LBJ (Loewen 264). This bit is uninteresting and controversial. Having the president’s handshake will make more students to buy the books hoping that the information is true and accurate, but this is not the case. What about showing an image of the fighters, the dressing, and how they attacked the enemies. An image that is full of color with illustrations of how the war took …show more content…
However, it is improper for a certain book to have information that is not similar to what is found in other books. It is following this reason that books have focused on using certain characters to describe the American history and left out others. For instance, both Woodrow Wilson and Helen keller were influential people in America. Most textbooks cover Wilson illustrating how he was an important president, and little attention is given to Keller (Loewen 19). The manner in which Loewen presents this information is to depict that indeed, there is discrimination, and this is a weakness in his presentation. Both characters have been given their space depending on their contributions in making the history of
According to Loewen, teachers in high school spend time teaching students little accurate information on American history. He feels that teachers today concentrate more on inaccurate information than accurate information. He blames the publishers, approval boards, authors, school boards and the poor measure directed in assessing quality measures towards employing skilled teachers. In the book, there are two most important points that the author has raised: the overwhelming positive history and the idea of pleasing the majority. In his work, the author analyzed several books; in 1994 he analyzed twelve books and realized that the books are written to illustrate how the history of America is uplifting. …show more content…
Loewen talks about the Vietnam War an example of the Americans history what should be remembered and what is inaccurate. Textbooks tend to water down history by concentrating on illustrating the present to students. It would have been appropriate for authors to use pictures depicting war instead of the troop being chanted up by President LBJ (Loewen 264). This bit is uninteresting and controversial. Having the president’s handshake will make more students to buy the books hoping that the information is true and accurate, but this is not the case. What about showing an image of the fighters, the dressing, and how they attacked the enemies. An image that is full of color with illustrations of how the war took …show more content…
However, it is improper for a certain book to have information that is not similar to what is found in other books. It is following this reason that books have focused on using certain characters to describe the American history and left out others. For instance, both Woodrow Wilson and Helen keller were influential people in America. Most textbooks cover Wilson illustrating how he was an important president, and little attention is given to Keller (Loewen 19). The manner in which Loewen presents this information is to depict that indeed, there is discrimination, and this is a weakness in his presentation. Both characters have been given their space depending on their contributions in making the history of