[HN Gopher] Don't Read History for Lessons
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       Don't Read History for Lessons
        
       Author : ivank
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-07-06 19:32 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | Good article, bad title.
        
       | drewcoo wrote:
       | > In a sentence: I think we should read history for concept
       | instantiations, not lessons.
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       | By this, the author seems to mean reading for patterns instead of
       | rote facts. And if you go to anyone teaching history in any
       | college anywhere, they'll tell you something similar.
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       | If only this autodidact had studied history . . .
        
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