The Holocaust Debate
The Holocaust was the ordered procedure, state sponsored persecution that killed about 6 million Jews by the Nazi’s rule of government. The Holocaust should be taught in schools because they are old enough, they can learn from their ancestors mistakes, and some say teaching the Holocaust may desensitize students which may not be necessarily true.
Students are old enough to learn about the Holocaust because it teaches students that life isn’t some fairy land. This is technically saying that our world isntdoesn’t fit in for everybody. But then you get used to it and you get used to the fact that their are many obstacles in life that you have to face and accept.
Without experiencing something or hearing about it, it wouldn’t help spread maturity. This is because if students don’t learn about this, it'll promote prejudice, and that means discrimination of some kind. Talking about the racial genocides of the past helps accept diversity because acknowledging the wrongdoings of the past makes for an impartial present and future.
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We need to learn from our mistakes Time and experience can be an excellent example when you actually learn a lesson from your poor decisions. There is a quote that says “Who Knew What Awaited Us?” (Scholastic Article) It technically talks about how a partisan fighter(s) have been tracked and had to leave their area before the Germans attack. They took all of their supplies and left in the night. Most of the partisans didn’t have a plan of what they were doing or what they were going to do, many of them got lost because of wandering around. Therefore they didn’t know what was awaiting them later