Al Peterson

2017-12-02 01:43:15 -0500

GERRY WATERHOUSE commented 10 hours ago.

…so what is the point of retweeting them, except to incite hatred, anger or fear? There is no educational value here, nothing new to learn, no new points to be made.

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Gerry, I have to disagree with you here. As a teacher myself I know the value of repetition in order to facilitate remembering a fact. That is all he was doing. Those on the left have a problem with facts. They prefer feelings to facts.



The first pillar of leftiedom is the refusal to learn from mistakes. The second pillar of leftiedom is that they refuse to learn from other people’s mistakes. Hence the need for some repetition in the futile hope that something of the truth might sink in.



You know the old line… “Those who don’t learn from their history are doomed to repeat it”. Well our nation is going to do some repeating since we aren’t learning and we aren’t learning because we don’t repeat the truth to ourselves enough.



Just today I was reading through my Mom’s yearbook from her time in teacher’s college ( what was then called Normal School) in 1944-45. The school president, G.R. Anderson, said, “When peace comes let us be ready to see that it is established on sure and certain foundations. We owe it to ourselves and to future generations of Canadians, by every sound and legitimate means, to guard against a recurrence of the present tragedy and sacrifices. Each has a responsibility here, but perhaps no group has a greater one than the teacher. In the past too much has been taken for granted and teachers are prone to consider that the product of our schools are ready to accept and discharge their responsibilities as citizens. We now discover that in in taking all this for granted we have made a grave mistake.”



Evidently we are still taking it for granted and have learned absolutely nothing.



They are not sleeping though poppies grow in Flander’s fields.

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