Teaching of Lies

As a young boy, my favourite subject in school was history. I can remember being so excited to do my history homework and to hear about all the great stories that great people did to establish America as a country. All the way through high school, my interest remained high and full of excitement. My very first year as a freshman student, my history professor taught the same history we had all learned as children, but he started to teach about all the lies that we have been taught. The huge class of 18-year-old students challenged him every day because we didn’t want to believe anything that he was saying. It sounded as if we had been lied to our entire lives and we couldn’t accept that fact. He never stopped teaching the truth. He ended up being one of my favourite teachers.

Now, that I am a mature man, I have spent more than 20 years taking a closer look at the things that I was taught as a child. Initially I spent too much time trying to prove to myself that I was taught the truth. Later, I tried to justify why a lot of the history lessons were like fairy tales similar to Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Realising that most of the history that I was taught and believed was nothing more than lies taught to tell a completely different story. Do you remember any of the history lessons that you experienced as a young child? It makes me sad to say that I remember all of them as I watch each of them dissolve like a…