The lack of education about recent history in schools is the biggest omission. People were forced into the logic of shame so they could be controlled, Education and Science Minister Przemysław Czarnek said Monday in Ostrołęka (Mazowieckie Voivodeship).
The Minister of Education and Science visited the Cultural Center of Ostrołęka, where he gave a lecture entitled “Heritage for the Future”. Previously, he went to the Museum of the Cursed Soldiers in Ostrołęka and paid tribute to the nurse and liaison officer Danuta Czekakówna “Inka”. Today it is 77 years ago that she passed away.
Documentary from 2014
After visiting the museum, I received from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage on January 22, 2014 a document concerning the financing of the construction of this museum. In this document, we read that funding was denied for various reasons, but the main point is: the importance of the project from the point of view of the cultural and historical policy of the state – zero points
noted the minister.
Certainly, because it goes in the direction of the pedagogy of pride in the fact that there was an uprising in Zamość
he said.
For these people, the past and the legacy to be passed on are completely unimportant
Czarnek said. According to him, this is the result of “doing terrible things, discrediting yourself, persecuting your brothers and violating the basic freedom of the law.”
They would like to draw a thick line and say there is no past. You can’t go to the future without the past
he noticed.
The minister stressed the need to cure people of their selfishness, show them history and teach them why we should be proud to be Poland.
We must show them the wonderful circumstances in which their successors – children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren – can live
– he said. He added that Law and Justice has for some time focused on modernity, but also on traditions in education.
We focus on the transfer of heritage to the future. Hence all those programs that should make the young generations aware of who they are
he pointed it out.
Serious omission
As he admitted, the lack of modern history education in Polish schools is the result of decades of neglect.
Why haven’t we learned recent history? It was an absolutely systemic assumption so that the logic of shame could be effectively enforced. If you don’t know what it is, it’s about money
said Black.
We don’t give history since 1939, we deprive new generations of recent history, and then we tell them we weren’t really heroes, we were villains.
– pointed out and emphasized the importance of the new subject, namely history and the present.
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Source: wPolityce