Schools told to dump Churchill and Hitler from history lessons

The London Evening Standard – Secondary schools will strip back the traditional curriculum in favour of lessons on debt management, the environment and healthy eating, ministers revealed. Even Winston Churchill no longer merits a mention after a drastic slimming-down of the syllabus to create more space for “modern” issues. Along with Hitler, Gandhi, Stalin and Martin Luther King, the former prime minister has been dropped from a list of key figures to be mentioned in history teaching. Read Article

Ed. – The key issue: “Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it”. Having those ‘life skills’ in the curriculum – a great idea, but the societal need for this knowledge needs tackling at the source. The kids’ parents need it too. ‘Food’: teach it in primary and by example; school food. No need to cut History – unless someone WANTS us to repeat it. We need scientists and artists too.

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