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Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the invaluable mental power we call judgment.
(The historian) was able to disapprove without being astonished. She could reject and still understand.
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The hardest work begins in dry dock.
Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it is their almost tactile quality that leads readers to sculpt images of the writers who use them. These images are then interrogated, mocked, congratulated, or dismissed, depending on the context of the reading and the disposition of the reader.
As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.
We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.
The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.