{"id":1787,"date":"2017-08-22T02:24:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T02:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2017-12-27T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:33:11","slug":"the-war-on-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/the-war-on-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;ADD Image&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/putin-erdogan.jpg&#8221; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.34)&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_center&#8221; background_blend=&#8221;darken&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; 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background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>EDUCATION<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;ADD Title&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; max_width=&#8221;660px&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;60&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#e5ffe5&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;18px||80px|&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.1em&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;52&#8243; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Vollkorn||||&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The War on Memory<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#f7f7f4&#8243; 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parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_2=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_2=&#8221;off&#8221; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;620px&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Lead Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; max_width=&#8221;620px&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;24&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#363636&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;40px||0px|&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;22&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the eve of a new school year, it\u2019s worth noting how education in the world is&#8211;perhaps as ever&#8211;under assault. And in every place where it happens, the goal is the same: to limit the ability of young people to think freely and critically about how power works on them; to compel them to complacency or motivate them to rage. In any case, it is to simplify their understanding of the world, to ask no questions of it, to mythologize the stories they live. As Primo Levi warned us about the Third Reich, it is nothing less than a \u201cwar on memory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Part 2 Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; max_width=&#8221;620px&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;20&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#363636&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;30px||0px|&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.5em&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;16&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politicians have attempted to manipulate history for generations and centuries to favor political agendas, of course. The Chinese government wants to erase the slaughter at Tiananmen Square (and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/13\/world\/asia\/liu-xiaobo-dead.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">poet-teacher-activist-Nobel-winner Liu Xiaobo died this summer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while under arrest), Putin arrests historians who document Stalin\u2019s crimes (while erecting new statues celebrating his legacy), Philippines president Duterte has actually threatened indigenous schools with air strikes in fear of their curriculum, and Turkey\u2019s president Erdogan is quickly submerging the legacy of modernist Ataturk. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;off&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;50px|||&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; allow_player_pause=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;17px|||&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;830px&#8221; parallax_2=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_2=&#8221;off&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;2&#8243; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/hagia-sophia.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;off&#8221; sticky=&#8221;on&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_divider color=&#8221;#027c08&#8243; show_divider=&#8221;on&#8221; divider_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; divider_position=&#8221;top&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_css_main_element=&#8221;width:130px;&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Photo Caption&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#363636&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; text_font=&#8221;PT Serif||on||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16&#8243; text_line_height=&#8221;1em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;20px||0px|&#8221; max_width=&#8221;130px&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #097714;\">The Hagia Sophia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;on&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; allow_player_pause=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_2=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_2=&#8221;off&#8221; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;620px&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Part 3 Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; max_width=&#8221;620px&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;20&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#363636&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;46px||0px|&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.5em&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;16&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turkey\u2019s shift is particularly tragic. A country long hoped to join the EU, a NATO ally, a people with a rich cultural history learning to embrace its diversity. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/travel\/a-monumental-struggle-to-preserve-hagia-sophia-92038218\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let the debate over the use of the Hagia Sophia symbolize this<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Oh, wait&#8211;Erdogan is turning it into a mosque again as he strips his country of its secular culture.) He is arresting Turkish citizens if they have the ByLock messaging app on their cell phones. There may now be more imprisoned journalists in Turkey than in any other country on the planet. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/europe\/la-fg-turkey-purge-2017-story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over half a million people have been purged from their middle class lifestyles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, tens of thousands of them teachers and researchers, because Erdogan fears that their schools are teaching rebellion. Teaching the previous secular curriculum has made them \u201cenemies of the state,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summer has been filled with stories of Turkey removing Darwin from school curricula. But this is a small issue in balance: Erdogan and Turkey\u2019s ruling AKP understand well that control of education and history means control of national identity. And the end of freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;on&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;50px|||&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; allow_player_pause=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;620px&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_divider color=&#8221;#027c08&#8243; show_divider=&#8221;on&#8221; divider_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; divider_position=&#8221;top&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Pull Quote&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Lora||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;32&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#097714&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;16px||30px|&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; max_width=&#8221;900px&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;28&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;What we teach or fail to teach, what students are permitted to ask or chastised for asking, what resources we provide or limit, what subjects we select to fill entirely too brief spaces of classroom, these define possibility.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=&#8221;#027c08&#8243; show_divider=&#8221;on&#8221; divider_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; divider_position=&#8221;top&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;on&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;17px|||&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; allow_player_pause=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_2=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_2=&#8221;off&#8221; column_padding_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;620px&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Part 4 Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; max_width=&#8221;620px&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;20&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#363636&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;30px||0px|&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.5em&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.69&#8243; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;16&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All curricula mark ideological paths. What we teach or fail to teach, what students are permitted to ask or chastised for asking, what resources we provide or limit, what subjects we select to fill entirely too brief spaces of classroom, these define the possibilities for human futures. Orwell said it to, of course, with his pithy \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who controls the past controls the future. 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