Oxford University vice-chancellor warns against ‘hiding our history’ in row over Cecil Rhodes statue

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What happens to the Rhodes Scholarship?

Kick that South African student advocating for the same out of the UK

So the new bandwagon is funning

Statues are physical glorifications of people and things. Removing a statue does not equate to hiding our history. Burning books and silencing conversations of our past would be hiding our history.

Institutional what?

it would help if they was even teaching history properly in school instead of this sugar coated rubbish that they're telling the kids, history is messed up but how can we learn from it if we keep hiding the worst of it?

If you ask kids who Cecil Rhodes was the vast majority would be clueless. So what are we so frightened of losing? Address the balance. Address the whitewash of the curriculum and educate

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