Friday, June 15, 2012

Happy Magna Carta Day!

  King John signing Magna Carta
King John signing Magna Carta
Who said "history is not interesting"?  Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede! 15th June, 1215.
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My (otherwise bright) 16 year old granddaughter when told, looked blank and asked "what's Magna Carta?"
I could weep for our nation - our land.....my own nation - my own land! Who ordered our education to be so altered and diverted, on such a scale as not telling them about Magna Carta - wherever it may be hiding!
It is such a shame, that it cannot be revealed for all to see - and talked about in schools!
No wonder they ignore it! It's invisible! Deleted from our history...and that's not right!
Something really needs to be done, chaps - and I think it's going to be down to us geriatrics to do it!
S.

PS: This article is from America - not England! Disgraceful, but I suppose nobody here even knows about it all, do they? Such is now our abysmal  level of public education and ignorance - not stupidity, just ignorance - you cannot know, what you have not been told, or discovered.