History Is A Teacher (2010)
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The bitter struggles for freedom in Bosnia and Rwanda are the backdrop for first 2 installments on the importance of History in shaping national identity. In Bosnia, where memories of conflict are still very fresh children are growing up with a one-sided account of History. In multi-ethnic towns schools are divided and in the same building Croat children are taught in separate classrooms from Muslims. In Rwanda, for eight years following the 1994 genocide, history was not taught in Rwandan schools. Over the last 4 years, historians and educators have tried to re-introduce history into the curriculum with limited success. The problem is that history has been so manipulated to justify political actions that impartial accounts of Rwanda’s history are very hard to come by. Started by the Belgian Administration 150 years ago and then inflamed by Hutu figure heads for the last 50 years, the social structure of Rwanda has been divided into Tutsi elite and Hutu laborers. Archaeologists are finding evidence to prove that this division into distinct ethnic groups was never the case. (45 min.)