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		<title>Why teach and study history</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[greek revolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post Neville Morley commented on the reasons for teaching history. It is worth repeating them in brief here. First of all, it provides critical skills, such as critical reading and analysis. Secondly, it helps us understand the way the world works. History draws together politics, economics, sociology etc. and studies their development and interaction over time. Thirdly, the study of history is a means of understanding how people work. As we are historical animals, we develop a sense of identity from the past and, so it shapes our decisions and actions. In this basic analysis we can add several other reasons for the teaching of history. For me the predominant motive is to reform the minds of the ‘students’ . Their skill of critical analysis is fundamental for the political, economic, cultural, religious and social assessment of the world we live in. When our youngest citizens develop historical eyes and ears, governments, churches and other institutions will not be able to direct them. In a perfect historically-aware world citizens will safeguard their rights and fulfill their obligations, taking into consideration the common benefit. And, if you believe in the repetition of history, knowledge of the past will protect them from future mistakes. However, the reasons to teach history do not coincide with the reasons to study it. I cannot think of any student who will choose the topic in order to become a better citizen. These are just fantasies of an idealistic teacher. Instead, there are more possibilities that someone will become a historian for more individualistic motives. In my case, my love of history, when I was 14 years old, developed out of my perverse imagination of the Greek revolution. At the time I literally fell in love with its uncontested military leader, Kolokotronis. I devoured all the books in the library about his life. I watched the movie about his trial over and over again. I learned by heart the circumstances and outcome of his battles. And then, I started dreaming that I was part of his entourage, that I was wearing fustanella and tsarouchia (white pleated skirt and pom-pom shoes), that I was carrying obsolete weapons and that I went around the camp riding on a white horse. I was hooked, if not incurably addicted! So, if we wish to provide our students with critical skills that that will turn them into thinking men or women and valuable citizens, we need to excite their imagination. What do you think?]]></description>
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