See, should have figured you'd be way more on top of that than I am.

This is why we need to make history a more important subject in our schools, IMHO. It's a lesson that there's zero new under the sun.

Oh lord, there is nothing that will ever be done about history in the schools. The powers that be prefer us stupid and docile and good corporate drones--not that I expect to teach kids theory such as Weber's Protestant Work Ethic, but the economic and social theories make sense of history, and that's anathema to those in charge.

I'm not even convinced more schooling is the answer, since schools don't teach kids to think. Although I'm not sure that schools have ever been about thinking skills....