Education Ministry to provide material on teaching of 20th history Czech history

The Education Ministry is putting together material aimed specifically at helping teachers tackle 20th century Czech history, not least the 2nd half which Czechoslovakia spent largely under totalitarianism. Education Minister Ondřej Liška revealed on Friday that the ministry’s aim was to interconnect history with different disciplines, including literature, offering students a more complex picture of the times. While admitting that the teaching of history in many cases was “not up to par”, he rejected challenges by the Communist Party over how the communist period has been taught. The minister said that it was under communism that history lessons lacked objectivity and were “butchered” by Communist teachers.