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— James A. Garfield"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."
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The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.
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