tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post1959600051722760829..comments2023-06-20T02:25:36.578-07:00Comments on The Scholar's Stage: What History Should An American Know?T. Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-3038442693554173282015-07-14T01:43:59.559-07:002015-07-14T01:43:59.559-07:00@booksandsword-
I think you will like an earlier ...@booksandsword-<br /><br />I think you will like an earlier post of mine, <a href="http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2013/10/escaping-echo-chamber-of-modernity.html" rel="nofollow">Escaping the Echo Chamber of Modernity</a>. I defend reading the classics for the exact reason you describe. <br /><br />Nonetheless, there ought to be priorities in education -- Americans only have so many years to T. Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-62082203735888194432015-07-13T11:29:51.992-07:002015-07-13T11:29:51.992-07:00Thank you very much for this post. Like A.J. West...Thank you very much for this post. Like A.J. West, it seems to me that studying any distant history can have a broadening effect. Anyone who tries to understand people who are just as capable and just as human as them and their peers but approach problems in completely different ways will gain something. So maybe the contents of the curriculum are less important than trying to make people see Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-22195402430926491702015-07-12T06:08:09.873-07:002015-07-12T06:08:09.873-07:00"Americans ought to prioritize their own hist..."Americans ought to prioritize their own history and cultural heritage—it is in America they live and with Americans they all must deal with it."<br /><br />I would dispute this. Americans, like all other humans, live on the Earth, and they must deal all the time and in all ways with people in other parts of it. Every garment they buy, every item of food - it's all come ultimately p9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00424827703117675037noreply@blogger.com