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Evergreen Dazed Aug 30, 2012 20:55:10
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
Evergreen Dazed wrote:
GLADMAN wrote:
This is a very difficult issue which, perhaps, doesn't even have an realistic answer. People aren't suddenly going to miraculously be educated to view their ancient heritage with wonder and care for it as (we believe) it should be cared for.
Teaching at least a small amount in schools might help, so kids grow up with some awareness of our pre roman past and why we should look after these amazing places.
Very true, although I understand from one of my colleagues that even teaching of (documented) history is now fragmented in the extreme, with some kids not even being sure whether the Romans come before the Victorians, everything is so compartmentalised and there's no linear narrative.

It's not helped by continual oversimplification in the popular press. The Daily Mail still hasn't quite got used to the idea that before the Romans came people in this country weren't still living in caves and communicating in grunts.

The Daily Mail.. Classic stuff. Can you imagine if it was around during the early BA?
"THE BEAKERS ARE INVADING"
;)

G GLADMAN
GLADMAN Aug 30, 2012 21:07:36
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
The Daily Mail.. Classic stuff. Can you imagine if it was around during the early BA?
"THE BEAKERS ARE INVADING"
;)
The Daily Mail really is the worst, is it not? So smug and self righteous without knowing a thing....perhaps the unforgivable combination.... thinking itself above the likes of The Sun and Star etc which at least know what they cater for.

My dad gets the Mail. I have to say I look through it for the sheer annoyance value.... to see what we have to fight against. Today, for example, there is a 'shock horror' feature concerning the Richard Montgomery, a munitions ship sunk in the Thames Estuary during WW2. Could blow up at any minute!!! Apparently. Despite having resided opposite my island for 60 odd years. The paper is a disgrace. Complete and utter disgrace.

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 30, 2012 21:08:23
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
The Daily Mail.. Classic stuff. Can you imagine if it was around during the early BA?
"THE BEAKERS ARE INVADING"
;)
"THE BEAKERS ARE INVADING - ROUNDHOUSE PRICES THREATENED"