Imagine it is 2110 . . . . . . you're a history teacher . . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . . what will you be teaching about the last half of the 20th Century and the first half of the 21st?

[miscsoc]

1. not much, all of the books will have been incinerated in the war of

2057

1:38:46 in this film is education in the 22nd century

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488#

[villager]

2. That was when the former "United States of America" fell apart

...into the present, constituent separate countries that now make up North America?

[JuniperLea]

3. In the beginning there was a garden planet humans called Earth... eom

[stuntcat]

9. ditto

and there were interesting, beautiful animals covering it

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Flint Knapping n/t

[upi402]

5. whatever the Uniparty tells me to teach

There is one truth, one way, one Textas book to teach from.
:puke:

[damntexdem]

6. Whatever it is I teach, I still won't be paid enough.

But maybe something like: that was when there were still animals in the wild, we could breathe air right out in the open, and there were not only over a million humans on earth, but BILLIONS.

[kenfrequed]

7. Well...

I think I would title it or introduce it as the 'Age of illusions'

A time where everything collapsed and no one noticed until it was too late.

There would be the Canaries: Zinn, Chomsky, and Postman I think.

I fear that the age would end with the ascension of some kind of right wing fundamentalist government that would only be made possible by a collapse that people were blind to and insulated from. The people would not understand the direct financial forces at work in destroying them; a false consciousness that allowed people to believe that hobgoblins they called liberals were responsible for all their ills.

Hopeful the fundamentalist government would then collapse as well.

[Angry Dragon]

8. School?? ....... Teachers??

The republicans will put a tv in every home with only one broadcast station.
Fox news..........only the truth allowed here..........no need for anything else

[Statistical]

10. There will be no recorded history of any events prior to the great flash of 2029.

Of course it isn't like there will be many detailed historical records for the 100 or so years of anarchy and near continual violence for scarce resources after that.

[Starry Messenger]

11. Teaching?

I'll be wearing a Walmart Charter Academy© vest and pointing to a computer screen full of yes and no questions.

[agent46]

18. That sounds more like 2017 n/t

[guitar man]

12. it depends

Is this in Texas, or elsewhere? :crazy:

[onehandle]

13. The glorious rise of mother China to its rightful control of Earth. nt

[Individualist]

14. At the rate we're going, humanity may be extinct by then.

[edgineered]

15. you teach what Tennessee Ernie Ford sang:

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

[RKP5637]

16. Reminds me of the movie Fahrenheit 451... n/t

[Arkana]

17. I'd hope to be teaching about an era where we put every Republican

in the country in dunking booths filled with urine.

[HopeHoops]

19. Dang. I thought I had some old teachers in school! Although 147 for a history teacher isn't bad.

It is at least on par with some of the ones I had.