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...locked in a world of incomprehension, with an increasingly two-dimensional understanding of other people, [and are] incapable of forming real relationships in the world of flesh and blood...And then they go on to form the elite, with adult bodies and adult drives. No wonder Britain rules the (air)waves.
The move has been publicized in the same week as Britain’s imperial legacy is under scrutiny with the publication of a new book titled Inglorious Empire by Indian politician Shashi Tharoor.https://www.rt.com/uk/379574-liam-fox-new-empire/
“ It is a British problem, first of all because there is so much historical amnesia about what the empire really entailed, ” Tharoor told Channel 4.
“ The fact you don’t really teach colonial history in your schools... children doing A-Levels in history don’t learn a line of colonial history.
“ There’s no real awareness of the atrocities, of the fact that Britain financed its Industrial Revolution and its prosperity from the depredations of empire, the fact that Britain came to one of the richest countries in the world in the 18th century and reduced it, after two centuries of plunder, to one of the poorest, ” Tharoor said.
There should be mandatory after hours classes for the parents.