[HN Gopher] Don't Read History for Lessons ___________________________________________________________________ Don't Read History for Lessons Author : ivank Score : 27 points Date : 2022-07-06 19:32 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (commoncog.com) (TXT) w3m dump (commoncog.com) | PaulHoule wrote: | Good article, bad title. | drewcoo wrote: | > In a sentence: I think we should read history for concept | instantiations, not lessons. | | 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. | | If only this autodidact had studied history . . . ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-07 23:00 UTC)