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A response I'm imagining you'll get from college administrators today: "To truly teach history, we must first begin with those who were not part of it and under
by yostrovs 8y ago
A response I'm imagining you'll get from college administrators today: "To truly teach history, we must first begin with those who were not part of it and understand why they were not. Why weren't there any important early black computer scientists? Why were women mostly absent in elucidating the laws of motion? These questions should form the basis of further historical study of physics, surgery, etc."
- matt4077 8y agoI love how you’re making fun of people by making up quotes they never said.
- smhost 8y agowhat do you mean? those are all valid questions.
- OliverJones 8y agoThat's a good point. When we learn from the dead, we often learn what NOT to do and how NOT to behave. Domain-specific history is full of examples of people who started out being silenced, struggled hard to be heard, and then changed their professions. Why didn't Franklin get the Nobel Prize along with Watson and Crick? The kind of history teaching I propose can lay out those examples. It's called "lived experience" history, not "birth dates of heroes" history.