| I agree in the manner of historical education.... history is written by the victors.... while true history is written by those who lived through it.
Most of my historical background is similar in comparison to this..... it's good that you had a teacher who taught this way, as they seem to be rare these days. My history teacher taught this way.... my father who was best friend with the history teacher, who was also a teacher in the same school and knew a lot of WWII and such also taught me similarly.
If you're reading from just a text book, you're not gonna learn as much as you would if you had a human factor added into the topic..... emotional effect on them, 1st hand encounters and human interpretation, rather then inert statistics and dry layouts of what basically transpired.
A perfect example of this is just going and asking a WWII vet or someone who lived through what you want to learn and listening to their 1st hand experiences..... like Band of Brothers as an example.... are you more interested in their stories from their mouths, or a text book describing the basic overall battle and who won?
It's really good to catch articles or documentaries where they interview or ask people from both sides, like some German and British sailors on the Atlantic describing both views of a battle.... it just sinks in better, you can actually visualize what they went through, etc.
Hell we're humans not computers, and we're even trying to make computers more human, so why explain history like a computer?
History will repeat itself until we learn from our past mistakes, and if those past mistakes are clouded by some country's biased view and to make history promote them in the end, then you won't learn the whole truth, and history will repeat, much as it is now. |