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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I have a friend who says that he didn't fall in love with history until he was in this thirties (somewhat like myself) and at that time he was suddenly possessed by a desire to find his old high-school history teacher and beat him bloody for making it so boring!
Some people complain about schools and school boards having special agendas for teaching things a certain way. I feel the greater likelihood is that they have a limited amount of time, and can only present what they think is most important.
Do you want to know more about a specific piece of history? Read several books that discuss the same subject, preferably from different points of view. Want to know more about a specific person? Read every biography you can find on that person, or else ask someone who has read many to recommend the one he things is best if you don't have time for more than one.
Never trust what any single person says about a subject. The more footnotes provided the better, but even then you need to assume the chance that they might be slanting the story one way or another.
And going into a discussion always assume you may be wrong, and don't state what you can't actually prove. The person who assumes he's right is the person who can't deal with what happens when it turns out he's wrong. And sooner or later every one of us is wrong about something. |
You make a great point!.... thanks
... thsats why i love this forum... so many different points of view
