What Does Boredom Teach Us About How We Engage with History? - By Chana Teeger - Behavioral Scientist
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What Does Boredom Teach Us About How We Engage with History? - By Chana Teeger - Behavioral Scientist
What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility . This is not about memorizing dates and facts. It is, as the historian Gordon S. Wood describes it, a “different consciousness,” a way of understanding that profoundly influences how we see the world. It is a temperament that is... See more
Francis Gavin • The Lost Art of Thinking Historically
What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility . This is not about memorizing dates and facts. It is, as the historian Gordon S. Wood describes it, a “different consciousness,” a way of understanding that profoundly influences how we see the world. It is a temperament that is... See more
Francis Gavin • The Lost Art of Thinking Historically
At the root of this terrible confusion is a failure of our education system—and our media—to give the next generation a proper history education.