S2 E5: Who really owns the "discovery" of America?

My African cliché of the day is a reproach. To my history teacher, at whom I might be a little upset, for not having printed in my child's head, the need, the power and the importance of dreams and pursuing them. I am convinced that talking to schoolchildren about this ancestor who renounced the wealth and prestige of a king, to pursue his dream, can only do good to them especially at that young age. Would it prevent these schoolchildren, once they became heads of state, from clinging to power?