Teaching our kids about Polish History

I have a question.. Why is it that any other countries than Poland, dosn't lean the kids about Polish history ?

I mean, we lean about Napolion and the frensh revolution, about English and plenty of other histories and big people including.. but, what does people know about Poland ? Do they have ANY clue about who the Polish king Sobieski was ??

The king who fighted and won over the muslim occupation in Europe ? it is founded out they several european king has contact the polish king and asked for help, and thanks to the Polish king, they defeated the muslims.. but does people know that ? What couldn't Europe have looked like today, if it wasn't for king Sobieski ?

and WW2.. It was the Polish who spotted "Peenemunde" it whas the Polish who defeated Monte Cassino, and before the WW2, the Polish and Lithuan union ? one of the biggest in the world.. and later the Polish defeated the SOVIET union trops in 1920, the Russians would have go further in to the western Europe, I could go on whit anything you know..

What is wrong, since the other countries don't want to teach kids in Poland ? The polish history have a very GREAT infuence in western europe !! its a fact..

Just a thought.

The history tells us Poland and Poles are to do the dirty job - then when the job is done, other nations forget about it and take all the splendor (and money)...

Well, I think that our history is quite well known in Eastern Europe. It`s only the people in Western Europe who associate Poland only with Solidarity, the WWII defeat and the partitions. Whereby that last issue is quite well known becaouse of the German/Russian propaganda, who after Poland was gone for a while from the map - during the XIX century both the Russians and the Germans had plenty of time to spread various propaganda about us (some elements of that XIX century propaganda is still present in various stereotypes about us) as well as to promote their achievments and their history over ours.

Beside the schoolsystem in many Western European countries dosn`t put much impact on history overall. I know that in many cases the children in Germany and the UK beside the most basic facts don`t know about the history of THEIR countries and if the aren`t interested in history by their own their school isn`t going to provide them any information beyoned the most basic issues (or in some cases even the most basic issues are omited)

And why Polish history isn`t known outside of Europe very well - European history outside of Europe isn`t very well known to non-Europeans. They know/are interested in the European history as much as we are know/are interested in the American/Chinese/Japanese/Indian/Persian/Arab history.

Well, the same can be said about Americans. They saved Europe only 61 and 88 years ago.
We`ve saved Europe 86 and 323 years ago. In both cases noone really cares about it

Beside it`s interesting to see how some countries - those who were very powerful during the XIX century had hijacked the European history and the effect of this that you can see untill this day. It`s not only the Polish history that has been treated this way the same you can say also i.e. about the Turks - who for almost 500 years ruled over one of the Worlds most powerful Empires, that could fight with a combined force of most European countries for a very long time.. The Portugese, who for a very long time had one of the world`s largest mercantile/colonial empires.. Sweden, who for a very long time as was a military superpower (and I`m not talking here about the Vigings - but about the XVII-XVIII century).. or Spain, who perhaps is a little bit more known in England, but here (Poland) Spain is only being associated with the Reconquista, Inqisition, Columbus and the Spanish Civil War (well probably in some other countries in Europe Spain is being associated even with less)

Wlazski your english suck's and you are spelling a lot of word's incorrectly.

Spelling is not important on these boards. It's making a valid point that counts.

His English isn`t perfect but I can very well understand what he`s writing.

And your comment is not relevant at all in this case.

Well that's a point. I live in Denmark for an example, and the history teaching here is only about the Western Europe, you don’t lean anything about the Eastern Europe.. It could sound a little bit like we still have the Berlin wall, talking about history teaching.. And I can't figure out why that is.. !!

Most Americans don't know American history and most people don't care about historical accuracy.

The majority of Americans do know their history. It's just that with so much immigration and illegals in this country our history is put on the back burner.

"A nation that is forgetting its past is also loosing its future"

Marshal Jozef K. Pilsudski

good point but not correct.