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Even I know this stuff..
Feb 04, 2008 20:11
OK...Winston Churhchill - Fact or Fiction?.. Britain says ---:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512087&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
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starcannibal
February 5 2008, 06:39:47 UTC
>>Historian Correlli Barnett said: "This suggests a complete lack of common sense and respect for our greatest heroes of the past."
"Churchill and Wellington were great men, but this suggests we no longer value people of great achievement.
"It's all about celebrities and popular culture. What it also tells us is what is going wrong in our school curriculums.
"Something must be completely lacking in our national education that people could be so ignorant as to think these people never actually existed.
"No doubt these other ones like Robin Hood, people mistake as being real because they have recently been featured on the TV."<<
Uhm.....yeah.....that pretty much says it all.
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alexjabber
February 5 2008, 17:41:51 UTC
I heard this on KROQ this morning... hilarious! And oddly stupid.
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>>Historian Correlli Barnett said: "This suggests a complete lack of common sense and respect for our greatest heroes of the past."
"Churchill and Wellington were great men, but this suggests we no longer value people of great achievement.
"It's all about celebrities and popular culture. What it also tells us is what is going wrong in our school curriculums.
"Something must be completely lacking in our national education that people could be so ignorant as to think these people never actually existed.
"No doubt these other ones like Robin Hood, people mistake as being real because they have recently been featured on the TV."<<
Uhm.....yeah.....that pretty much says it all.
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