Reflections of a stormy petrel

Quite. But I have long since come to the conclusion that history should not be taught at below university level. There has never been a time when it was not used and distorted to serve the prevailing values and mould future citizens into the shape that teachers desire - nationalist or internationalist, conservative or Communist, but never honest. I would replace it with classes in civic education, with an emphasis on the duties of the citizen - that would be less hypocritical.