A NON-REVISIONIST LOOK AT HISTORY*

This website is the spin-off of our talk, Beyond Curricula, aimed at teachers and parents who
are trying to fill the gaps in their conversation skills. We use Kenny G's "Auld Lang Syne (The Millenium Mix)" to discuss the need to learn more than revisionist curricula can teach. Not to learn a lot about any one thing, mind you. Just enough to be interested, as well as interesting, in a variety of topics. This website allows participants to go through the self-improvement study at their own pace and serves as a template for constructing your own unit studies.

Want to be a more informed and confident parent or teacher? Have a student with interests which aren't covered by the textbooks, but you haven't built a "unit study" before? Join us as we explore the various ways to use a mix of media to prepare your students to advance beyond curricula. We'll take a look at some of the better books, videos and websites that can set everyone on the path to a more well-rounded education. Also, we'll introduce you to a format of "information organization" suitable for any topic or biography. Like to try your own "unit study"? Have a personal interest but don't know where to start? Simply done. When you find a topic that you'd like to study, just imagine that you're constructing one of our pages and fill in the listings with your own data. The more you do, the better your teaching will be, the more you and your students will retain. This method of study is suitable for people of all ages and learning styles. You don't have to be a parent or teacher, either. Our whole family has contributed to this website, and it's resulted in some interesting conversation. And that, after all, is what this study is all about: a more conversant knowledge of the people who came before us. Use the word "history" if you must, but remember that it's supposed to be interesting.

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How to Use This Website

Click Here for Auld Lang Syne (The Millenium Mix) Lyrics
Soundtrack by Kenny G, 1999, Faith Christmas Album

*This study is filled with history presented as it happened. Just facts and stories from the past, shared in the present. We don't delve into "Should so-and-so have done such-and-such?" Revisionism, so prevalent in our society and schools, is a distortion of the truth. It has stripped away a populace's ability to evaluate things for themselves. This study is our small attempt to combat that slavery and assist all who enter to think for themselves. If just one person is rescued from the quagmire of intellectual spoon-feeding so prevalent in the American culture today, then we have not laboured in vain. Welcome!