Omitting important context entirely is not simplification. Just saying ‘these are the words and principals they aspired to, but did not do themselves’ can be conveyed to young children but generally isn’t taught until they are in their teens.
people also get really bent out of shape that history changes… because we learn more about it and historians change their consensus and interpretations of events over time.
Pluto is no longer a planet. It was a planet for a long time, but the definition changed because of new evidence that was discovered.
But people are so stubborn about stupid shit like this, they’d rather ‘protest’ these changes and new interpretations than just chill and be like ’oh ok, makes sense’. Or god forbid… choose to learn the new information rather than stay stubbornly ignorant about it.
Your teacher in 4th grade wasn’t lying to you about Pluto or anything else, they just didn’t know and they teach what is in the book, and the authors of the book probably didn’t know either.
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Most of the things are more or less simplified for children.
I would not go as far as to call them outright lies.
There are many outright lies though. There is also much underestimation of the intelligence of children.
Omitting important context entirely is not simplification. Just saying ‘these are the words and principals they aspired to, but did not do themselves’ can be conveyed to young children but generally isn’t taught until they are in their teens.
people also get really bent out of shape that history changes… because we learn more about it and historians change their consensus and interpretations of events over time.
Pluto is no longer a planet. It was a planet for a long time, but the definition changed because of new evidence that was discovered.
But people are so stubborn about stupid shit like this, they’d rather ‘protest’ these changes and new interpretations than just chill and be like ’oh ok, makes sense’. Or god forbid… choose to learn the new information rather than stay stubbornly ignorant about it.
Your teacher in 4th grade wasn’t lying to you about Pluto or anything else, they just didn’t know and they teach what is in the book, and the authors of the book probably didn’t know either.