Why do schools continually teach their students lies about the story of Columbus? Instead of telling?

Story is written by the victors"..... that sums it up pretty much. If the Nazi's won world war two I'm sure all our history books would be filled with atrocities that the allies committed during the war.

The truth of Columbus is on my blog under "Convenient Memories" - pjbradbury.blogspot.com/It's the same as the "truth" of fluoride - it kills and the "benefits" were only dreamed up by Alcoa to avoid having to pay a $40 million fine for pollution in the 1940's. Truth is what you want it to be and people believe what they're told as it's too much work or too scary to see reality.

I wrote a hub a few days ago that addresses this question briefly: hubpages.com/hub/why-do-americans-speak-eng.

Schools are financed by the rulers. So it is natural the rulers want the stock story passed on so the kids do not get confused about the truth of how it really happened. Take the rise of unions in this country.

A virtual bloodshed has occurred but nothing of this will be found in the textbooks. Education is compulsory and truants go to kid prison or parents are fined if they do not attend. We force the lies down the throats of the innocents under our care.

I taught for 8 years in the public schools before they caught up with me and I was summarily relieved of my position in short order. I was creating doubt in my class room and that cannot be. Superstition and lies are the foundation of public education and I never did subscribe to that!

All things in their time. I learned a version of the Story of Christopher Columbus when I was in 2nd grade I don't think I was ready at that time to hear or understand the full story. Also that is part of learning.

Challenge what you know dig deeper learn more. Every story has many facets and sides to read the posts here it would seem that you are not so much for relaying the entire story just villianizing someone who used to be considered a hero someone who was a brave explorer and proceeded to sail around the world. I do not think I would have gotten very far with a sextant, compass, and stars as my navigation tool.

Now our big adventure is to use our GPS Navigation to find the Mall. Why not instill a sense of adventure and the desire to explore in our children be it a far off land or a better understanding.

When the legend becomes the truth..we believe the legend. It makes a better story. Just look at the Ride of Paul Revere.

Or the truth about the Alamo. Even the truth about 9/11 has been and will be distorted to a point that our Grandchildren won't be taught the truth.

The lie will continue because of power and control. The white race loses a bit of power when we are force to acknowledge the truth....and they can't have that so keep the lie to keep the power....shame, shame, shame.

Abe I think you need to get your history lessons from far more reliable sources than Mel Gibson. That movie is way off base, proving Hollywood to be a spread of misinformation and founder of stereotypes, which people such as yourself, who do no real research, take as fact.

Analogous to icon Mel Gibson's film "Apocalypto" New World explorers, from Columbus to Cortez, brought Christianity ashore serving to replace Indian, Myan human sacrifice with love and church construction. It's no coinkydink that a ginormous percentage of them are still Catholic. Now if people would prefer to return to human sacrifice, simply rent the film.

-Abe Normal"Put that in the bank and smoke it," (Nahn Tradishunal).

Because Columbus is part of the great white myth of the united states and it's Racists white murdering Christian past. My neice came home with that mythical columbus krap and I told her the truth. She went back to her teacher with historical accounts in hand and I advised the teacher not to teach my neice anymore of those fairy tales.

Columbus was a murderer and he wrote down many of the atrocities he committed against the indigenous people he encountered. The rest of the story is all bad.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.