The reality of education's place in society can best be explained by employing the conflict theory (Kornblum, 2000). Conflict Theory attests that the educational system's true function is to reinforce and perpetuate the inequalities existing in society. ... In addition to being ignored or misrepresented in history, minority students, many who are financially wanting, are subjected to the capitalistic values of society through the presentation of lessons in arithmetic textbooks. ... Students who enter school speaking standard English as a second language may be hesitant in answering...

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There appears early, too, a strain of religious interest in showing the lessons of history, religious and ethical. ... In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ...

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