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[nutronjon]

Interesting that this thread has been ignored so long.

When I attended school, history was about conquest and conquer. We were still using the hero model of education and transmitting a culture. It was very important to learn about those who discovered the Americas. They were presented as heroes, not as terrible people who did terrible things to native Americans, or out self interest.

Education for technology dramatically changed what we hold is important to teach our young. The American heroes were destroyed, and this is both a good and bad thing. It sure as blazes puts Bush and McCain at odds with the young, who are more apt to see yesterday's heroes as today's villians.
Conquest and conquer is a thing of the past, and I think we are shifting to new role models. The choice of the great science thinkers, seems a mark of this shift.

I will choose, Socrates, Cicero, and Mother Teresa.