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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
From schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.
Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.
Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.
In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.
