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In reply to the discussion: Study: 22% of Millennials are unaware or unsure of what the Holocaust is [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)27. Even if they don't teach it in school, where is the intellectual curiosity to learn it on one's own.
Folks' knowledge in this information age is - or should not be - limited to what they learned in school. Surely much of what millennials know now was never taught in their classrooms ...
Capt. Ross: Corporal Barnes ... Is there no book, no manual or pamphlet, no set of orders or regulations that lets me know that, as a Marine, one of my duties is to perform code reds?
Cpl. Barnes: No, sir. No book, sir.
Capt. Ross: No further questions.
[as Ross walks back to his table Kaffee takes the book out of his hand]
Kaffee: Corporal, would you turn to the page in this book that says where the mess hall is, please?
Cpl. Barnes: Well, Lt. Kaffee, that's not in the book, sir.
Kaffee: You mean to say in all your time at Gitmo, you've never had a meal?
Cpl. Barnes: No, sir. Three squares a day, sir.
Kaffee: I don't understand. How did you know where the mess hall was if it's not in this book?
Cpl. Barnes: Well, I guess I just followed the crowd at chow time, sir.
Kaffee: No more questions.
From "A Few Good Men"
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Study: 22% of Millennials are unaware or unsure of what the Holocaust is [View all]
blondebanshee
Apr 2019
OP
Even if they don't teach it in school, where is the intellectual curiosity to learn it on one's own.
EffieBlack
Apr 2019
#27
"Sixty-six percent of Millennials and 41 percent of adults" Um, every Millennial is an adult.
Cuthbert Allgood
Apr 2019
#10
Like the US should have classes on slavery and the genocide of Native Americans n/t
TexasBushwhacker
Apr 2019
#56
I agree. We do have to understand the past to move forward in the future.
Captain Stern
Apr 2019
#49
Technically that's true...but her and her ilk have been with us in one form or another
Volaris
Apr 2019
#44
You don't know where you are going if you don't know where you have been.
redstatebluegirl
Apr 2019
#51