One of the most pervasive influence on American society is the high school textbooks. Thanks to the virtual monopoly of public education, publishers have the power to warp minds of young people.
In reality, textbooks have shape the ideas of young people.

First, history textbooks focus on names, dates and places rather than on the conflict of political and economic interests. Second, literature textbooks create a censored version of our literary heritage. Third,
science textbooks present a detail based version of science that shies away from broader concepts.(eg. How cells work, how matter and energy flow to one another, and how plants and animals evolve)

The reason for this, is to sell many textbooks to as many schools as possible. The marketing key is shiny cover with lots of color pictures and eye catching layout. Many textbook publisher will not include content that is offensive to commerce as well as to religious institutions. Schools go to great lengths to avoid buying books with dangerous ideas. In some states, agency created a list of approved textbooks. This created a watchdogs for so-called 'community values'. Also this censorship prevents students from critical thinking.

At the same time, there are powerful commercial interests who see an well-informed and critically thinking citizen as a direct threat. These corporation would rather have people easily influenced to accept whatever message by corporate controlled media. One of the biggest lies found in textbooks is the idea of democracy. Thanks to Woodrow Wilson and his idiotic followers, he coined the term 'democracy' meaning the American way. This confusion made it easier for politicians to warp our way in how government really works.

Promoting democracy worldwide is probably the greatest con game in history. We may claim to have a government by the people for the people but in fact have legal representatives paid by corporate lobbyists. History textbooks deceive us by claiming we live in a democracy. In reality, history textbook convey a consensus view of history full of inaccuracies and misrepresentation. Majority of people believed what
history think it is. Overall, American history is a joke.

Helping student understand our cultural history presents a lot of dangerous
ideas such as lower classes, environmentalism and other subcultures. It gives alternatives the middle class view of what America should be. Controlling the content of books is, in reality, more direct control over the masses.

Until we have a more balanced and open-minded approach to education, children should take our history's lessons lightly.