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thenewgreen · 4480 days ago · link · · parent · post: Textbooks round the world: It ain’t necessarily so - Ask Hubski -How did your textbooks shape you?
I can't say that any one book stands out as "shaping" me, but collectively, there's no doubt that they did. When I read a news article about a current event I often think to myself, "while this make the history books"? Of course, there will not be a "book" as we know it when the next generation is learning their history.
But there sure is a lot of power in being the chosen company to write history books for our youth. I have a love of country that comes not just from my family teaching or my experience as a citizen but from the textbooks that instilled these things in me. Such power. Kind of scary.