Random offensive statement time
Nov. 10th, 2003 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcherSo I was looking around campus in the midst of running around to deal with a) Mail server failure, b) Router failure, and c) copier failure.
Saw a poster for another series of holocaust talks, and how some people were shaking their heads and talking about getting 'too much' holocaust.
And that lead me to a somewhat chilling thought: Is it possible that people have put so much effort into the 'never again' school of thought that future generations have been totally desensitized to what the holocaust was and represents? That so much has been hammered home that people...just don't care?
Do educators perhaps need to back off a bit? Should the holocaust history be carefully husbanded in public education for times when it will give the most shock value, and make the greatest impression?
Or are my fears baseless, and we should continue a pervasive method of teaching it? (I started getting holocaust history + pictures in, I believe, 5th grade. Every year following, it came up. When did you guys start being exposed?)
Saw a poster for another series of holocaust talks, and how some people were shaking their heads and talking about getting 'too much' holocaust.
And that lead me to a somewhat chilling thought: Is it possible that people have put so much effort into the 'never again' school of thought that future generations have been totally desensitized to what the holocaust was and represents? That so much has been hammered home that people...just don't care?
Do educators perhaps need to back off a bit? Should the holocaust history be carefully husbanded in public education for times when it will give the most shock value, and make the greatest impression?
Or are my fears baseless, and we should continue a pervasive method of teaching it? (I started getting holocaust history + pictures in, I believe, 5th grade. Every year following, it came up. When did you guys start being exposed?)
