CBC Opinion: Robinson and Morrow fail to learn lessons of the past

From Capitol Broadcasting Company:

So, North Carolina should send the more than $1.7 billion a year that helps educate public school children back to the federal government.

What kind of wisdom is that from Mark Robinson, who wants to be governor and now sits on the state Board of Education, and Michele Morrow, who wants to be state Superintendent of Public Instruction?

Were they paying attention back in their school days where the study of history was, and for now still is, an essential element of a basic education?

From recent comments from Robinson and Morrow, we have to wonder where they were when the wisdom of philosopher George Santayana and Winston Churchill were the subjects. It is most elementary.

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” Churchill said in a 1948 speech in Parliament. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” Santayana said in his 1905 work “The Life of Reason.”

The lesson they should have learned from history in North Carolina is not too far in the past – hardly a year.