The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.
Rooted in the word 'history' is 'story.' And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.