'Don't Know Much About History'

George Orwell wrote in his classic novel, 1984: "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
So there’s a battle over history. That battle continues in our day.

A recent survey finds that many of our young people are failing to learn basic facts of our nation’s history. For example, only 35% of fourth-graders know what the purpose of the Declaration of Independence was.

That’s scary because if we don’t know where we came from, we don’t know where we are going. That’s a paraphrase of President Woodrow Wilson.

Our 28th president said in a rally in 1911 before his election: “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about....” He went on to speak of America’s spiritual heritage.

In my opinion, political correctness is at the root of the problem. Too often the schools are more concerned about children’s self-esteem than they are about how much they learn.

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Many North American Anglicans and Episcopalians know very little about the English Reformation and the reformed Church of England. They have come to accept a revisionist view of Anglican Church history.