Wwii Would Hit Millennials' Mental Health

[fender62]

old saying, ignore the past, doomed to repeat it...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7641459/AMANDA-PLATELL-Instagram-star-one-man-argument-RAISING-voting-age.html

[Mozz71]

I think school field trips to places like Auschwitz, should be more commonplace, if not compulsory (cost notwithstanding). Teach the kids the worst of humanity so they can aspire to be the best.

[retrocop]

I have never been to Auschwitz in my life. I taught myself about those horrors at the age of 7 years.I bought and read a paperback entitled 'Eichmann' in Swansea whilst on holiday in Wales. Graphic photos of corpses were within.This snowflake is a pathetic ignoramus. I despair.

[jourdain2]

When OH was doing Nat. Service in Germany they all (voluntarily and in their off-duty time) visited Belsen. He admits that it coloured his life and that he is a wiser man for the experience.

[jourdain2]

^^^ He has since read copiously about wars and is extremely knowledgeable - he has inspired me to do some very serious reading, too.

[Barmaid]

What an absolute k*&b

[Zacs-Master]

People really should stop being so irate about the opinion of one idiot . Move on.

[jno]

nothing particularly outrageous about it.They could learn a lot more from studying WW1, a much more complex conflict. For a start, far more Britons died (more died on day one of the Somme than in all conflicts since 1945), so those are the lessons that really need to be learnt. But does anyone learn about WW1 any more?

[pixie374]

More people died from infections than wounds... so be careful with antibiotics.

[naomi24]

Nothing wrong at all with learning about World War I and its undoubted horrors – but the unassailable evidence of man’s appalling inhumanity to man catapults World War II into a category all its own – and that should never be forgotten.

I wonder if the curriculum is too broad now and obvious restrictions on time mean teaching a little of many things but not much of anything.

Auschwitz, and a few kilometres distant the purpose-built death camp that is Birkenau ... an education never to be forgotten.

[david small]

Today’s indulged youngster’s generally speaking are disinclined to absorb their older generations experiences and the consequences of them. They again generally reject our decisions, as the chaotic mess we’ve left them shows our own mistakes only too well. They want to make their own mess.

[pixie374]

"Indulged".... while having little chance of buying their own houses, having a retirement or being able to afford just one adult in the family to be working. Things change, but don't necessarily get easier.

[david small]

I was referring to indulged in an emotional sense pixie374. Not from a financial or prospective perspective.

[pixie374]

Me too...

[ummmm]

My son is studying history at university. He's always had an interest in it. Something I'm grateful to Google for.

[Mamyalynne]

The curriculum is so crowded, I have heard children bemoan the fact that a really interesting module ended after a few weeks, hopefully for some it lit a flame for them to seek out more themselves.

Sadly for others the flame never burns.

[ichkeria]

Zacs has it.
A pretty desperate attempt to link the views of one idiot with arguments about the voting age.