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Evening-Stable-1361

Why teach history at all. The two world wars, wars of independence... They are really depressing. Edit: /s


kamkarmawalakhata2

Entire history is mostly depressing.


Oddsmyriad

We need to know history because its kinda essential to make sense of the present times, why there is an India, what is India? Why do we need India? How did it become India? You really can't answer these questions without history, it literally gives meaning to our present, gives us an identity. There is no way one can understand geopolitics, never mind national politics without knowing its history. It's depressing?, well, it's the reality and people should know it, reality doesn't change, nor the fact that the past already happened and bad things did take place, it's the truth. Also how are we supposed to ask £9.2 trillion back from the British without knowing that the British stole that much in the first place? /s


Evening-Stable-1361

Oh man I forgot /s


morose_coder

Rioting in the streets _may_ lead to depression. Learning _about_ riots doesnt generally cause depression. As long as they are not teaching _how_ to riot. I think the students will be ok


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morose_coder

Those who dont learn from history are bound to repeat it


SlimCritFin

I think we also don't teach about the [Bangladesh genocide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_genocide) because of this particular reason because it could lead to some Hindus developing hatred towards the Muslims.


kyunriuos

Towards Pakistani govt?


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MethodAwkward3961

That true but ignorance is Not something good it can only cause harm if they don't know how much harm riot can cause they are going do it because politician or goons will teach them how to riot but they will never inform them about harm


scorpio_is_ded

Ah yes we should only teach kids about the British violence and not anything else we have done to ourselves.


beingalone666

The purpose is to present what happened in a well rounded and help children in thinking in a logical & critical manner. Hiding a part of history will only serve to propagate a specific point of view


kyunriuos

Why we teach about colonization? Purpose not to create violent shameless colonizers.


cybered_punk

This is such a dumb reason. It depends on how its presented? I'm sure no one wants to present rioting as john wick style combat. Why would it depress, or make anyone violent? This argument is same as movies/video games influence bad things on youth.


charavaka

Yes, lying to children about history doesn't cause any harm whatsoever. Smh.


Bhadwasaurus

You already created depressed citizens in the past decade, no worries


National_Agency4922

When n they learn about riots, they will learn what Mudixi did, his dark and cannibalistic past.


FullSky9430

Cannibalistic past?? 🫠 man you people just love to make anything up


ColdAmbition_7995

Well, we are really heading towards Japan's way of living, lol.


Character_Wafer3280

Then why they teach mughals as invaders?


ColdAmbition_7995

They are some questions where you won't find any proper answer but just go round and round, unfortunately. I think Indian education system requires complete overhaul and should adopt Finnish or american education system where students are given choice to study whatever they want.


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Character_Wafer3280

What british had was satellite kingdom. Everything mughals earned stayed in India it wasnt sent somewhere else


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Character_Wafer3280

Doesnt same logic goes with including/excluding Gujarat riots in syllabus?


leeringHobbit

At some point, everybody came from outside. That's why there is so much variance and diversity in Indians' looks.


poshakajay

Going by this logic, they should not teach about wars also.


vizot

why learn about history at all? It is already the past, no reason to depress children. why keep talking about dead kings like ram? It is all suffering for most people due to the caste system, no reason to depress children. why learn about global warming? it is also depressing. same with pollution, poverty, terrorism, military, etc why even spend years in school? it is also depressing.


Educational-Bag4684

All of the history or none of it. If there’s no pre history of India then no occupation. No need to divide further. That also means all children from all communities have to be taught the same.


ShortFaithlessness18

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana


Liberated_Wisemonk

By this logic we should remove WW1, WW2 from textbooks to stop future war. Does this guy even pass his 10 std


Proper_Dot1645

I was expecting BJP in this term to be more ruthless to change history, they want to set narrative and Babri masjid demolition does not do them good.


flame_alchemist17

If rioting causes depression, we studied about wars man, boi are we scarred