[lit-ideas] Re: Potlach etc.

>I don't really care if, two years after finishing my
> course in Scottish history, a student can't recall the date of the
> Covenant.  When checking facts is so easy, why would retaining facts
> be thought a valuable goal?  What I want is for students to learn
> some things about how historians tackle primary and secondary
> sources, come up with interpretive patterns, test them in
> discussion.

that was my first London Head of Department's view, thank goodness! It
really was liberating for me as a new lecturer, as well as for the students.

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