This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
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