Is, "Bilingual education" a good topic for my persuasive speech?

Need help on History persuasive speech!!!!?

• Okay I am doing a persuasive speech in Speech class on how History is important to our education and I can think of any good things to talk about.... I already am talking about "the lack of education knowledge around the world" and how "history needs to be understand for every day life today" can you guys give me some advice and another good topic to talk about please!!! THANKS A LOT!

• Answer:

  There are many reasons to study history. First, and most important; unless you understand how we got into a situation [whatever it is] we won't be able to find the best way out. Here's an example: who set up the Taliban? In the early 1980s, the CIA and the ISI (the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence agency) provided arms to Afghans who were resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden formed the prototype Taliban organisation and by 1987, over 50,000 tons of American-made weapons and ammunition a year were passing into Taliban hands. So here is the USA, 20 years later, fighting the very people it created in the first place. Shouldn't that tell us something useful from history? And how short-sighted politicians and secret agents are? Second, history gives us a view of human development that could make the future better than the past. You can see this easily in terms of slavery, dictatorships, unnecessary wars and the concept of freedom. Unfortunately you are in USA and that country has not yet learnt how to handle its own history. The USA has been at war since December 1941, ostensibly making the world safe for democracy; but only if that democracy is defined the way the USA wants it to be. The USA believes in freedom for everyone - just so long as you don't want freedom from USA involvement, don't reject the American way of life, don't think that USA is shallow, greedy, power-hungry and dictatorial. There are many countries and communities in the world who can't accept that approach and so they appear to be the enemies of USA. But they're not; just wanting to live life their own ways. As a classic case of this phenomenon, some history has been written by politicians in USA to show that the Alamo was an heroic defence of American territory; that California was a sovereign state that opted to join the union; that Hawaii asked to join USA, to free itself from Spanish rule. None of these is true. All American and European historians know these are untrue.. Even so, the younger generation should study these things with an open mind so that history will not be repeated. So you see, history is an important study and ought to give future generations a better grasp of how they fit into the continuum of human understanding. OK?