[RalphyS]

Quote: (Originally Posted by eusebioCBR)

unfortunatly in this situation truth is relative to the deliverer. ... but comparing Bush to Hitler is a reckless display of the teachers political opinion.

Actually the teacher remarked that 'some people' compare Bush to Adolf Hitler, which is a correct statement.

There are those who consider Dubya, a dictator, and make this comparison. I would not mind a teacher bringing up that other make that comparison, and after that spark a debate/discussion as too how far that comparison is true and as too how far it is ridiculous.

If you want young people interested in your classes, it sometimes helps to incorporate modern culture in history, bands like Incubus, Disturbed, Green Day and others make comparisons between dictators in Bush in their songs. I would welcome teachers bringing up this subject, not saying that the statements of the bands are true, but discussing these things they claim are true and with which young fans are being indoctinated in another way.

It is easy to portray Hitler as the ultimate evil and to not discuss any of his policies, but you would learn nothing than, we especially need to learn about the things that went wrong in history to learn from our mistakes.

History is not about teaching that Germany started the second world war, the important part of history is the events and things done or not done that caused Germany to start WWII.

And I do feel that current history is also an important part of history, how can one understand anything about how this gulf war came to be, without knowing the events that happened surrounding operation desert storm?

I'm not saying that teachers should form students opinion, but they should be involved in helping them to form some sort of opinion by instigating discussion and by making them think about issues.