“Those that fail to learn from history…”

… might have attended a community college in North Carolina. After last week’s revelation at the Shaftesbury Luncheon by N.C. State history professor Holly Brewer that N.C. high school history classes minimize the founding of our country to teach more recent topics, another downer about history instruction, this time in the state’s community colleges, comes courtesy of the N.C. State history department. In an article called “Seamless Transition Between Schools Needs More Stitching,” Jane Shaw discusses a study by a State grad student that claims students who transfer from community colleges are often woefully unprepared for State’s history classes.

p.s. The reason there is a discrepancy between the two quotations is because Mitch is quoting George Santayana, and I am quoting Winston Churchill (…are doomed to repeat it.”).