Another world
how we learn, what we know, what is important.
How to create a new learning enviroment.
All good stuff.
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For me teaching is about how much fun learning and knowledge can be, that ideas are exciting, both new and old - an old idea is new if you have never heard it before!
History - My favorite subject and an essential part of the human condition - we need to know, as is obvious from the number of orphan and IVF babies that now need to know their biological roots.
Not knowing our past impedes our ability to move forward, and worse, makes us move only around in circles.
I want to show people that the past is just people: Funny, Scared, Clever HUMAN.
English, as in "literature", is also history; the very human side of our history, and that language is just an expression of humanity.
People, and particularly students, treat Chaucer and Shakespeare as an incomprhensible......
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I want to show people that the past is just people: Funny, Scared, Clever HUMAN.
Just people? What about the rest of the world - plants, animals, the elements?
With history, these three categories are like classical music in a music store - available, but not up there where it belongs.
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