“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
This is a quote from George Orwell’s “1984,” a book published in 1949 that is sadly relevant today. While “1984″ is a work of fiction, it’s a cautionary tale that seems to be playing out today with censorship of books and government-enforced bans on the teaching of certain things in several states.
Hiding from history does not make it go away or any less true. Sometimes, history is not something to be proud of, and yes, sometimes it rightly makes us uncomfortable. Yet that is often how learning is achieved.
