Alt title: 3 Old White Men Discover Colonialsm Bad
First of all, I assume it was news to them when they got it and now it’s news to the rest of us.
Secondly, I’m guessing what you taught did not include the research and the mathematics necessary in order for them to get the hard evidence to prove the thing you taught to high school sophomores.
I’m picturing a math or a science teacher saying something like this and it makes me laugh.
Well no, but what I taught to high school sophomore is–believe it or not–based on the research that academics and specialists have been doing for generations. The same is true for high school science and math teachers, by the way.
Thankfully your attempt to look sophisticated allows me to reiterate my point: this has been heavily researched, documented, and explored for several generations now. It’s only news to people who have had the privilege of ignoring colonialism; many of them are in positions of authority or prestige. I’d recommend taking a look at the work of Franz Fanon or Aimee Cesaire to get a sense of how far back this line of thinking and research goes. Read that and I’ll pass you some more global academic research on the topic.
Yes, and I’m sure people who taught children that 1+1=2 thought that Newton wasted a whole lot of time getting to what every small child knows in the Principia Mathematica.
(Do you think that possibly the claim that, as a history teacher, you know what these people in an entirely different field knew before they did, so their work is pointless, is a bit silly?)
That’s not what Newton did with the Principia. You can read it for free online to confirm this.
I teach a course on the history of science if you’re interested.
