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Re: Do we need History as part of our education?katrinamae said Aug 9, 2007, 4:18 PM: |
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Through Art, that's how to teach non-biased history! I learned more history in two semesters on Art History than I had in my entire schooling life (accept interests that I persued on my own outside of school). And it's was wonderfully unbiased, because we were learning about art, and you can't teach art history without talking about some of the most beautiful and tragic histories of each culture, since those things often inspire art. I think that from a young age, we should study “World History” and “Art History” and “Comparative Religions” and “World Mythologies,” instead of so much U.S. history, stuffed down our throats. That would give us a true world view, an interconnectedness among humans. I think those are the four most important subjects I've studied in my life, and I had to wait to receive three of them in college, and one of them from a book that was given to me (The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell) and a book I sought (A History of God, by Karen Armstrong)! What crap! |
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Re: Do we need History as part of our education?Enlightened.thinker said Aug 10, 2007, 8:28 AM: |
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I'v e taught World Civilizations in college and most of the students have never studied anything more than their own history. I confuse them at times with my approach, a more social and biographical history, one Thomas Carlyle espoused when he said “history is biography”. |
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Re: Do we need History as part of our education?katrinamae said Aug 10, 2007, 9:58 AM: |
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Oh no, no, no! :) BOTH books are absolutely wonderful - I meant it was “crap” that I had to wait 'til I was out of regular schooling before I learned those wonderful things about the religions of the world and the myths and connections! Sorry, Tuan! |
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