From Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut: "Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy:
"1492
"The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them. Here is another piece of evil nonsense which children were taught: that the sea pirates eventually created a government which became a beacon of freedom to human beings everywhere else."
From Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut: "Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy:
"1492
"The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them. Here is another piece of evil nonsense which children were taught: that the sea pirates eventually created a government which became a beacon of freedom to human beings everywhere else."