Increasingly, [[public school]] textbooks teach history based the bias of '''status worship''', misleading students into thinking that status is more important than achievement. Elected officials typically receive more emphasis than, for example, [[Thomas Edison]], who was selected as the most important person of the last thousand years by ''Life'' magazine.<ref>See [[Essay:Liberal Denials about History]].</ref> | Increasingly, [[public school]] textbooks teach history based the bias of '''status worship''', misleading students into thinking that status is more important than achievement. Elected officials typically receive more emphasis than, for example, [[Thomas Edison]], who was selected as the most important person of the last thousand years by ''Life'' magazine.<ref>See [[Essay:Liberal Denials about History]].</ref> |