Flawless Heroes? :: essays research papers

Flawless Heroes?     It is burning(prenominal) for youth to concord heroes but beau monde can non ignore thefacts and only line on the good side of those heroes. Everyone is human, andthey are going to make mistakes. hopefully they learn from those mistakes, andif those mistakes are brought to light and conveyed to the young good deal thenthey as well learn from those mistakes.     History has a duty to report on the integral story. To report anythingless would be wrong. To just simply say that capital of Ohio was a perfect man whonever did anything wrong would paint an impossible picture of the past. Mr.Gibbon, the author of this article seems to think that reality is a large thingand should not be taught in our classrooms. Todays youth however get hold of to beprepared for life in some way. They cannot be supply everything with a sugarcoated spoon. If they were given everything on a specie platter like that thenwhen they walked ou t into the real world for the set-back time they would not beable to adjust and become a productive part of society.     Todays young people are in await of heroes as Mr. Gibbon suggests, butevery person is going to have some skeletons in their closet, hero or no hero.To ask society to ignore the facts just so young people can notice that thesepeople are perfectly squeaky clean is wrong. Society cannot cunning to them. Thereis some value to teaching reality even though Mr. Gibbon doesnt seem to thinkso.     Mr. Gibbon mentions that there is some assort of "custom of exemplarylives" in societys heroes that used to exist but no longer does. However therenever was such a tradition of wonderfully perfect people with perfect lives.Back then people ignored the facts and decided to believe that these people wereperfect when the fact was that they were not perfect, they were just human.     You cannot shield todays you ng people. You cant just cover their eyesto reality. domain must be exposed and studied so they can filter out to understandthe world.     I agree with Gibbon that parents are the first and to the highest degree importanteducators and they must try to make their lives exemplary so their children exit