17-04-2016, 10:13 PM
Shocked, I'm really shocked, I tell you. School texts are so horrible - and they do mostly come from Texas (where Mel & Norma Gabler acted as the Spanish Inquisition for textbook publishers). When I was coming up in the late 70s/early 80s, history class bored the hell out of me. And I liked history! But the textbooks were dumbed down to the point where most of my peers never wanted to read another book or hear another thing about history ever again. Which I think is the whole goal of our "education" system.