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Lies My Teacher Told Me And Dr Schweikart Summary
After reading both introductions from Dr.Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me and Dr. Schweikart’s 48 Liberal Lies About American History I would have to agree with Dr.Loewen. Schweikart made accusations that facts, true facts, were missing from our textbooks and that the facts that are being placed in our textbooks are unimportant, and have nothing to do with how America’s future will look. Whereas Lowen made the point, that I fully believe, that “These books are huge”(Loewen 3). I mean don’t get me wrong I love reading. I enjoy reading about our nation’s history. I just enjoy reading about it without all the banners and highlighted words. I agree with Loewen, these textbooks are making learning about history boring.
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