DerekC
Established Member
I have noticed in talking to some of my grandchildren (ages 7 to 13) that they have absorbed a simplistic and very one-sided view of the English Civil War. Cavaliers are seen as exciting, brave and fighting for freedom. Roundheads are seen as baddies, trying to stop people doing what they want. This upsets me a bit, because the real story is very important - and not just to democracy in the UK, either. I quote Thomas Rainsborough in 1647:
Has anyone else noticed this - and is it how the subject is taught in schools that's the problem?
“I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he, and therefore truly, Sir, I think it’s clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent, to put himself under that government and I do think that the poorest man in England is not bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under”
Has anyone else noticed this - and is it how the subject is taught in schools that's the problem?