It is beneficial that the next generation learns about the past for the same reasons that it is important that you remember your childhood. The quintessential question of “what next!” How will we as a society go into the future without knowledge of the past? If we don’t know what we, as Americans, are, how… Continue reading Why is History Important?
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School: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Units of Measure Edition
Yeah, really. I've written before about the expressed similarities which my late husband observed might have been true when it came to those between British boarding school children and those who signed up for the US military. "Yes," he used to observe, when I told him about my childhood difficulties with privacy, bathing, personal space,… Continue reading School: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Units of Measure Edition
Quote of the Day: Why is History Important?
It is beneficial that the next generation learns about the past for the same reasons that it is important that you remember your childhood. The quintessential question of “what next!” How will we as a society go into the future without knowledge of the past? If we don’t know what we, as Americans, are, how… Continue reading Quote of the Day: Why is History Important?