Return of the Cuban missile crisis
Julie Stauffer
I went to ps just after the missile crisis. All I knew about it was Fidel
Castro was the devil, Communists were evil, and the Bay of Pigs was an
embarrassment.
Fast forward, age 35, I'm reading National Geographic cover to cover like I
always do and I saw a picture of Che Guevara. I had no idea who he was but
the picture intrigued me. So I started reading, books about Guevara,
Castro, the Cuban revolution, Kennedy, Johnson.
What I learned was that ps had a very particular slant on the subject that
omitted some very important details, like the fact that Castro was
successful (and has remained fairly popular for 40 years) because the
previous US backed dictator was so much worse than Castro ever
became....that Cuba accepted Soviet missiles after the US threatened
repeatedly to invade the island...that the Bay of Pigs was a fiasco because
the US left the forces twisting in the wind and didn't provide promised back
up.
Point being....(and you thought I didn't have one) is that I learned about
the crisis in great detail, not from ps, or from 6 years in a university
where I simply got the party line .but from my own interests, teaching
myself, unschooling myself.
Julie
Castro was the devil, Communists were evil, and the Bay of Pigs was an
embarrassment.
Fast forward, age 35, I'm reading National Geographic cover to cover like I
always do and I saw a picture of Che Guevara. I had no idea who he was but
the picture intrigued me. So I started reading, books about Guevara,
Castro, the Cuban revolution, Kennedy, Johnson.
What I learned was that ps had a very particular slant on the subject that
omitted some very important details, like the fact that Castro was
successful (and has remained fairly popular for 40 years) because the
previous US backed dictator was so much worse than Castro ever
became....that Cuba accepted Soviet missiles after the US threatened
repeatedly to invade the island...that the Bay of Pigs was a fiasco because
the US left the forces twisting in the wind and didn't provide promised back
up.
Point being....(and you thought I didn't have one) is that I learned about
the crisis in great detail, not from ps, or from 6 years in a university
where I simply got the party line .but from my own interests, teaching
myself, unschooling myself.
Julie
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AHHH.. aint it always the way.. we get such a narrow view of things from school..
i would say the only thing i got out of my 12 years in ps.. from '56 to '68 was .. hmm now let me see, there's gotta be something.. uh.. I KNOW.. how to do simple algebra.. .. and uh.. i had a good art teacher once..
even college.. i got very little from that but a diploma.. and with a degree in psych the main thing i learned is that most research psychologists disagree with each other and can tell you why with their own studies.. hahahahha
L
i would say the only thing i got out of my 12 years in ps.. from '56 to '68 was .. hmm now let me see, there's gotta be something.. uh.. I KNOW.. how to do simple algebra.. .. and uh.. i had a good art teacher once..
even college.. i got very little from that but a diploma.. and with a degree in psych the main thing i learned is that most research psychologists disagree with each other and can tell you why with their own studies.. hahahahha
L
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Stauffer
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 12:38 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Return of the Cuban missile crisis
I went to ps just after the missile crisis. All I knew about it was Fidel
Castro was the devil, Communists were evil, and the Bay of Pigs was an
embarrassment.
Fast forward, age 35, I'm reading National Geographic cover to cover like I
always do and I saw a picture of Che Guevara. I had no idea who he was but
the picture intrigued me. So I started reading, books about Guevara,
Castro, the Cuban revolution, Kennedy, Johnson.
What I learned was that ps had a very particular slant on the subject that
omitted some very important details, like the fact that Castro was
successful (and has remained fairly popular for 40 years) because the
previous US backed dictator was so much worse than Castro ever
became....that Cuba accepted Soviet missiles after the US threatened
repeatedly to invade the island...that the Bay of Pigs was a fiasco because
the US left the forces twisting in the wind and didn't provide promised back
up.
Point being....(and you thought I didn't have one) is that I learned about
the crisis in great detail, not from ps, or from 6 years in a university
where I simply got the party line .but from my own interests, teaching
myself, unschooling myself.
Julie
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Julie,
Are you now an admirer of Che and Fidel?
Bob Sale
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Are you now an admirer of Che and Fidel?
Bob Sale
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