I love History it is really  the story  of  us, it tells  us where we have  been and where it  is possible to go, it is the class that dictators and tyrants hate  because it is  much  easy to  rule over  people who  have no since of themselves. Unfortunately it has been my experience that few students really  like history. I have  my  Ideas why  
but in a  resent paper I  wrote  I  come  across some  disturbing  findings  that  I  would  am going to  share with  you . Please feel free to  comment  and  If you  have any thoughts  on how to  fix this  please share them .

1. A 1997 report from the United States Department of Education finds  that on average students in grades one through four spent only 2.6 hours a week learning social studies of any kind.
2. According to a 1998 Luntz Research survey, 59 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds identified Moe, Larry, and Curly while only 41 percent correctly cited the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.”
3. Karl Marx's maxim, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” was or could have been written by the framers and included in the Constitution.
4. approximately one-third (34 percent) correctly identified George Washington as the American General at Yorktown while 37 percent thought Ulysses S. Grant was the general at that battle.
5.  American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) found students could graduate from 100 percent of the top colleges without taking a single course in American history.  At 78 percent of the institutions, students were not required to take any history at all.
6. In a 1999 survey commissioned by the National Association of Secretaries of State found that among 15- to 24-year-olds, their lowest-rated priorities in life were “being a good American” and “participating in democratic government and voting.”

 Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

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[1]United States Department of Education, Time Spent Teaching Core Academic Subjects in Elementary Schools: Comparisons Across Community School, Teacher, and Student Characteristics (February 1997) by Marianne Perie, David P. Baker, and Sharon Bobbitt.

[2] Deroy Murdock, “Civic Ignorance Threatens American Liberty,” Cato Institute, http://www.Cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4667 (accessed December 17, 2011).

[3]  “Capitol History,” The United States Capitol Historical Society, http://uschscapitolhistory.uschs.org/articles/uschs_articles-08.htm (accessed December 17, 2011).

[4] Ibid

[5] Ibid

[6] Ibid