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History, Definition of:
Noah Webster, in his 1828 dictionary defined "history" as:
.... a narrative of events in the order in which they happened with their causes and effects. A narrative (story) is very different from an annal ( a summary listing of dates, events, and definition).
Narratives (stories) should be used for teaching history if the student is to gain any understanding.
Students need the story and enough background to set it up. Then they can see the heart desires and mental understandings of the people involved. Learning from the people of history is what benefits growing students in their own lives. Thus it is clear we need to supply historical narratives to our students.
Annals, Definition of:
Notes: For a child to appreciate history, there must be told a story that relates the heart-felt beliefs that led those people to the actions they chose. Without such an understanding of their heart, there is no understanding of the history. To know history is to know what people did and why, that is to know their heart. Cold names without warm understanding of why they did the things they did is no more use to a child than learning the alphabet and not learning to form words. It takes stories from the time to be able to understand the time you are studying. It takes stories leading up to the time, as well as stories of that time. If your child isn't getting outside reading material, that is stories of history, then he is only passing exams on lists of historical names and dates, with little or no understanding of what happened. Look at the pitiful dearth of stories from 1st grade through high school on the American War for Independence. No wonder our children don't understand the thinking of the American War for Independence. Failure to understand the concepts of freedom as envisioned by those leaders is a primary assistance to the changing of America from a republic form of government to a socialistic democracy. Not knowing the background of the constitutional wording that was intended to guaranteed us a republican form of government, most students today would say we have a democracy. If you don't know the response of our founding fathers to that word, then you haven't read your history, you've been subjected to the rewriting of America's history. Buy some books from this site to learn the lessons you need to know if you're to understand true American history as our Founding Fathers wanted us to know. Notes: Names and dates without stories of the heart behind those events do not constitute the teaching of history. Annals are good for mental review of history. Annals serve well as outlines where stories need to be told that fill in the substance between events. Annals are lists of events, names, and dates. Annals do not teach history to a child.
School text books today are much more like annals than narratives (stories) of history.
Just look at an old history book to see the great difference from todays.
Immigration Policy of America explained by Teddy Roosevelt
Menu of stories on American history
References to God in our Declaration of Independence
Some history on Humanism and John Dewey
History of changes in schools and law
Some history of the teaching of reading
Outline of history of changes in American schools
History of how texts for students used to honor God
Patric Henry, Christian and Patriot
Recent history documented on public school experiments on our children
The Rewriting of America's History, by Catherine Millard,order the book
The definition of history according to Noah Webster
The definition of annals according to Noah Webster
Cutting off children from their American heritage through the state-economic-political system of schools
The BlobState-political-federal-economic-big money unionized school system as called the Blob by WIlliam Bennett.
Example of a true history book that has stories to communicate the heart desires of the times
Twelve Years of No Stories Please take an inventory of how many true stories of the American War for Independence were read by last years graduating seniors.
Big view of history of liberty and oppression
God the original intent this link carries you to an external site, on the history of America
Cutting off children from the true stories of their nation's history is the best way to change the nation from what it was to whatever the perpetrators want.
Karl Marx wrote about cutting off a people from their national roots.
That children have been cut off from this nation's history is evident when you look at the social studies and so-called history books in our schools.
Socialistic Democracy was strongly and favorably presented in that falsely so-called American History book given to my sophmore son at Rider High School.
It was more an annal than a history book. Such is the case of all the so-called history books I have seen with my four children from first grade through high school senior. American history is not taught as our founding fathers would have it taught.
As James T. Drapper said, ( past president of SBA) quoting in his book of 1982 from the Bible, "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" If the foundations of America are removed from the understanding of children, then that generation of children can be easily swayed to believe in other things. Patrick Henry certainly had other adjectives for such a government that could propose an eighty percent tax rate by the year 2002, as the current government has done.
National teacher unions are big money. William Bennett called the national school system a "Blob". It is so big. It is so diverse. It is so pervasive. It cannot be defined, because it is so big and changing so much in its many parts. Its total budget is second only to the national defence budget. Thus it is the most hot potato in politics, but few parents realize this.
The national school system is connected to the National Education Agency, called NEA. Connected by political and monetary influence. The NEA provides hugh amounts of dollars to lobby in Washington against parents having a choice of how they want their own children to be trained. The NEA worked strenuously AGAINST letting parents use their own money to send their own children to their own choice of a school for their children.
An 1893 book titled HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE has narrative stories.
The child in elementary school is predominantly offered through the library a selection of books amounting to trivia, uselessness, and nonsense. As evidenced by the abundance of books from Goosebumps marketing for profit without regard to the students learning anything of value to his life.
The older student in junior high is presented with more goosebump books and very little true stories of American history during the foundation period. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Public school students are given a diet of fun and feel-good, with little substance from history, and even less substance from the book esteemed above all others by those men who founded this nation.
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History of Changes in Education Difference between Humanism and Christiani John Dewey, atheistic Father of Modern Education Humanism, polite word for atheism
External link to another site with very complete list of historic documents concerning America's roots.
Fathers, turn your heart toward your children. See for reference, last three verses in last book of Old Testament in the King James. Stuff is happening. America is on a sled sliding down a mountain to the clift's edge, and about to have no room left to slide off into the abyss, which is where America disappears from history and becomes just another state in the one world government, subject to all their godless courts,laws, and military police actions. Could be the good reason why America is not mentioned in scripture. She had the best and let it go for profits, worshipping mammon instead of God. Even teaching history from economics and wars point of view instead of the finger of God developing His people. But once, the Founders of this nation, had the vision. Maybe some of us can regain that for our children. Remember the efforts of the Great Awakening, and the reasons for it; and the second "Awakening". Ask you preacher if you don't know the history and the reasons, the explanations. It boils down to this. Mayflower people and others came here for freedom to bring up their children their way instead of some King's way. For a long time they sought God and prospered and raised their children in good faith for generations. After three or four generations, the children had it so easy, they wondered "Why all this about God?" and they said, "Let's go do our thing and make our way in the world." Just another historical repeat of what happened with the Jews in the promised land of Caanan. Discover for yourself what words are engraved over the entrance to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and all the colleges of America for the first 250 years. Read for yourself the constitutions of the original thirteen colonies and make a list to study of all they said about God and why. Study the intent of the NorthWest Ordinance for bringing new states into the union and what kind of schools should they have. Fathers, if you don't want the hurtful part of history to repeat for your child, then it's past time to read and do Malachi 4:4,5,6 Order the book The Light and the Glory, and read it with your child. Read the scripture daily with your toddler, from age two and up. That's when the clay is molded. Some even read the scripture to the babe in the womb and don't stop, just all the way up. You only have till you send them off to someone else, some stranger to teach and mold their mind, their way of thinking and understanding. Use it like every minute was more than a thousand ounces of gold in value. Or lose it.
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