Comments on: Teaching the English about England http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/09/teaching-the-english-about-england/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Danny Lemieux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/09/teaching-the-english-about-england/comment-page-1/#comment-23295 Danny Lemieux Sat, 10 May 2008 22:54:19 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2880#comment-23295 Troll alert! Troll alert!

]]> By: Ellie2 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/09/teaching-the-english-about-england/comment-page-1/#comment-23291 Ellie2 Sat, 10 May 2008 19:03:32 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2880#comment-23291 If Great Britain gets in touch with her past, she may just save her future. Hail Britannia! If Great Britain gets in touch with her past, she may just save her future. Hail Britannia!

]]> By: Ivan Ivanovich http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/09/teaching-the-english-about-england/comment-page-1/#comment-23288 Ivan Ivanovich Sat, 10 May 2008 15:57:11 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2880#comment-23288 British History - 19th-century women, the First World War and Nazi Germany Yea, let’s add William Wallace, the Magna Charta, and the potato Famine. Greek History – Plato and his boys, and baklava Italian History – Julius Caesar and pasta French History – Napoleon Bonaparte and the Russian invasion German History – The holocaust American History – Bush lies about WMD British History – 19th-century women, the First World War and Nazi Germany
Yea, let’s add William Wallace, the Magna Charta, and the potato Famine.

Greek History – Plato and his boys, and baklava

Italian History – Julius Caesar and pasta

French History – Napoleon Bonaparte and the Russian invasion

German History – The holocaust

American History – Bush lies about WMD

]]> By: Al http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/09/teaching-the-english-about-england/comment-page-1/#comment-23279 Al Sat, 10 May 2008 09:10:41 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2880#comment-23279 I sincerely hope some back bencher in Parliament is shouting "Here,here!" Al I sincerely hope some back bencher in Parliament is shouting “Here,here!”
Al

]]> By: el gordo http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/09/teaching-the-english-about-england/comment-page-1/#comment-23277 el gordo Sat, 10 May 2008 08:29:07 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2880#comment-23277 I guess RE is religious education. If you have nothing good to say... This reminds me of an English colleague who (without much prompting) apologized for the British Empire and "what we did in India". Really sad. I should have questioned him what exactly he thinks they did in India and who taught him that nonsense. I guess RE is religious education. If you have nothing good to say…

This reminds me of an English colleague who (without much prompting) apologized for the British Empire and “what we did in India”. Really sad. I should have questioned him what exactly he thinks they did in India and who taught him that nonsense.

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