“History is open to interpretation, but it isn’t a toy dog you can make leap however you like.”
Neil Steinberg
more infosource: “Was Rome felled by gays or Goths or Christianity?” in the Chicago Sun-Times, December 3, 2010.
category: history, interpretation
medium: op-ed
“History requires a world of time and bitter hard work when your ‘education’ is no further advanced than the cat’s; when you are merely stuffing yourself with a mixed-up mess of empty names and random incidents and elusive dates, which no one teaches you how to interpret, and which, uninterpreted, pay you not a farthing’s value for your waste of time.”
Mark Twain
more infosource: Following the Equator (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903), 301.
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category: education, history, interpretation, learning
medium: nonfiction
interpretation