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**Cardinal** · 11-04-2011, 08:44

I give tours to young soldiers around the military museum in which I work and am amazed at how poor their grasp of British history is.

Last week I gave a tour to twenty seven SATT's, of that number only three had ever heard of Field Marshal Montgomery and only one of the Battle of El Alamein. Only two knew we had fought the Japanese during the Second World War. The only one who knew of Arnhem saw it on a film.

Several thought that British involvement in WWII ended with the Battle of Britain and after the Americans joined the War they did all the fighting.

They thought we simply went into our Anderson shelters or the London Underground, ate rations and listened to Vera Lyn whilst the Americans sent a Band of Brothers to Save Private Ryan.

What on earth are they teaching at school?

Cardinal

**bullet_catcher** · 11-04-2011, 08:52

American history, perhaps?

**Shaolinpunk** · 11-04-2011, 08:59

It does make you think, especially when coupled with the fact that business' have to provide a remedial level of education to their school leaver employees.
I am also not convinced the new teachers in their late 20's/early 30's know a great deal either. I know one and I am always telling her things she does not know but should!

**CrashTestDummy** · 11-04-2011, 09:06

Originally Posted by Cardinal

I give tours to young soldiers around the miitary museum in which I work and am amazed at how poor their grasp of British history is.

Last wek I gave a tour to twenty seven SATT's, of that number only three had ever heard of Field Marshal Montgomery and only one of the Battle of El Alamein. Only two knew we had fought the Japanese during the Second World War. The only one who knew of Arnhem saw it on a film.

Several thought that British involvement in WWII ended with the Battle of Britain and after the Americans joined the War they did all the fighting.

They thought we simply went into our Anderson shelters or the London Underground, ate rations and listened to Vera Lyn whilst the Americans sent a Band of Brothers to Save Private Ryan.

What on earth are they teaching at school?

Cardinal

Not English, obviously.

**llech** · 11-04-2011, 09:11

Groan......! Not like in our day blah blah blah! Without googling name me 3 Battles of the English Civil war? Shaped our history no end but how often is mentioned?

**cometcatcher** · 11-04-2011, 09:29

It's the same in all fields I'm afraid. Every now and then I go into schools to give science lectures, it's always worrying when you have year 9s not knowing what the Sun is, being amazed that them funny sparkly things in the sky are stars, having pictures on the wall in science classes of the Earth in the middle of the Solar System.......

**Lance_corp_more_rant** · 11-04-2011, 09:31

Originally Posted by llech

Groan......! Not like in our day blah blah blah! Without googling name me 3 Battles of the English Civil war? Shaped our history no end but how often is mentioned?

And of course the old saying of "those who forget their history are destined to repeat the same mistakes" Has been forgotten!
The problem with schools is they are now run by the left wing politicos who seem to be ignoring the facts and replacing them with lessons on how to be nice to each other, and how evil our forefathers were waging war and ruin on other nice friendly countries in Europe. We started the war you know by not letting Germany have it's holiday camps all over Europe

**uncle_ho** · 11-04-2011, 09:35

Originally Posted by llech

Groan......! Not like in our day blah blah blah! Without googling name me 3 Battles of the English Civil war? Shaped our history no end but how often is mentioned?

Without googling I give you:
Naseby
Edgeworth
Freedom Field,Plymouth.

I will google now to check