tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post119573814529484845..comments2024-03-27T18:18:11.525-06:00Comments on American Creation: Texas BOE DecisionBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-23630755887468438462010-03-14T19:26:42.697-06:002010-03-14T19:26:42.697-06:00This is a little bit mis-informed and over hyped. ...<i>This is a little bit mis-informed and over hyped. Jefferson was taken out of the World History standards. Speaking as someone who has taught World and American history this is still wrong but nowhere near as asinine as taking him out of American History. </i><br /><br />I'd like to hear the whole story. I don't think anyone has yet, especially when the "Texas Freedom Network," an advocacy group itself, is being used as a primary source by some people.<br /><br />Physically, Jefferson really didn't take part in the Revolution, in fact he caught some flak for it. John and Samuel Adams did, though.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-82922004995729165142010-03-14T18:54:09.909-06:002010-03-14T18:54:09.909-06:00This strikes me as, well... political correctness,...This strikes me as, well... political correctness, not conservative overreach. Airbrushing America out of history as a positive role model in liberation struggles (pricipally, one presumes based on the dates, in South America) seems like America-bashing, not conservatism.<br /><br />The Texas education establishment has taken note of the distortions of their proposals by rebutting only one news organization's coverage, namely FOX:<br /><br />http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=8203<br /><br />The actual proposals can be found here:<br /><br />http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=3643<br /><br />They are not really all that bad. Some sops to conservatism, some environmentalism, alot of signs of political compromise left and right.Kristo Miettinenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915769006991993189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-15682853968076334092010-03-14T10:49:19.634-06:002010-03-14T10:49:19.634-06:00This is a little bit mis-informed and over hyped. ...This is a little bit mis-informed and over hyped. Jefferson was taken out of the World History standards. Speaking as someone who has taught World and American history this is still wrong but nowhere near as asinine as taking him out of American History. <br /><br />The standard was great writers that lead to the string of Revolutions from 1770's to 1848 I believe. Jefferson was an influential writer at that time but I am not sure how much influence he had in Europe. <br /><br />You may want to revise your comments on the others as well because it is World History not American. I know I taught it that ideas that started with Aquinas started a ripple that became a wave by the time of the founding. <br /><br />I also brought in the American Revolution, and examined our founding documents as compared to others like the Magna Carta and talked about the Enlightenment. I think the French Revolution was in the standards for the next year. I would do nothing different even though I have learned about 80 percent of what I know about all this since then.<br /><br />Joe/KingAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13525858551867530960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-14586091995954976082010-03-13T23:17:18.931-07:002010-03-13T23:17:18.931-07:00Here we go with the Romans 13 again. Your claims a...Here we go with the Romans 13 again. Your claims about Calvin do not jive with his writing on Othniel. Have to read the story and then see how he applies it. At very least he contradicts himself.King of Irelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-24519272958217377982010-03-13T13:56:24.993-07:002010-03-13T13:56:24.993-07:00As for your pet list of unitarians like Milton, Ne...<i>As for your pet list of unitarians like Milton, Newton and Priestly, whose influence on the Founding was negligible,...</i><br /><br />I simply disagree. Taken together, Milton, Newton and Priestley had immense influence on the Founding.Jonathan Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079637406589278386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-870393548762632892010-03-13T13:54:02.744-07:002010-03-13T13:54:02.744-07:00Well, we're not going to find out the whole st...Well, we're not going to find out the whole story from the New York Times. But I like a lot of the changes. That Hayek and Milton Friedman were missing but Keynes and Marx weren't shows that the pendulum was too far in the other direction.<br /><br />As for your pet list of unitarians like Milton, Newton and Priestly, whose influence on the Founding was negligible, Jon, it seems like "agenda" isn't the sole province of idiot Texas conservatives.<br /><br />;-)Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com