> I should probably be happy that they learn
*something* about tech history.
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
Err, no. IMHO learnign incorrect information is worse
than not learing it
at all.
. . . and then, when they become teachers, they promulgate that same
nonsense as confirmed fact"
That's how we get Elisha Gray and Leif Ericson dropped from history,
George Washington and the cherry tree, "Henry Ford invented the
automobile", and Columbus' mission revised as being "to prove the world is
round"! (all educated people at the time knew that it was round, and they
had a pretty good idea of the exact size; Columbus was trying to prove
that it is 1/3 of its size!)
Fact checking is NOT required, not encouraged, when writing a history
textbook. Curricula is finalized by the most ignorant.