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Article: Teaching history as the reenactment of past experience.
- Article from:
- Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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If the aim of historical instruction is to enable the child to appreciate the values of social life, to see in imagination the forces which favor and allow men's effective co-operation with one another, to understand the sorts of character that help on and that hold back, the essential thing in its presentation is to make it moving, dynamic. History must be presented, not as an accumulation of results or effects, a mere statement of what happened, but as a forceful, acting thing. The motives--that is, the motors--must stand out. To study history is not to amass information, but to use information in constructing a vivid picture of how, and why men did thus and so; ...