Mis-teaching European history

Political correctness seems to be taking its toll on the other side of the Atlantic, as well:

Children are being taught a sanitised version of European history in which Napoleon is depicted as primarily a reformer and the Vikings are portrayed as peace-loving traders. . .

The move is part of a new drive towards political correctness in which national identity, as well as controversy and conflict, have been wiped from secondary school textbooks. . .

'Children are not being given the full picture of their history,' said Dr Yasemin Soysal, president of the European Sociological Association, who has spent three years researching the issue for the Economic and Social Research Council. 'They are being presented with a more peaceful and bland image of European creation than actually took place.'

Posted by David on April 21, 2003 2:15 PM