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At my school (UK) we had 2 main sources - the teacher, and the textbook. Niether were primary. Students used the internet a lot, and Encarta (lol), and were co
by billysielu 8y ago
At my school (UK) we had 2 main sources - the teacher, and the textbook. Niether were primary.
Students used the internet a lot, and Encarta (lol), and were constantly getting grief from teachers for doing so.
- ceejayoz 8y agoYour textbooks are highly likely to have contained excerpts from primary sources.
- billysielu 8y agothank god you know more about my education than I do.
- ceejayoz 8y agoYou really want to argue that the UK educates students without a single excerpt from the Magna Carta, without a single Churchill speech, etc.? That you went through twelve years of schooling without ever being exposed to a historical figure's own words? You were never assigned a single autobiographical work to read from? Be my guest, but good luck getting anyone to believe it. edit: I'll just note, additionally, that you stated "nothing in a classroom is a primary source". Even if it were true that yours was an unprecedented aberration, that general statement remains untrue.
- dang 8y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html