Pseudo-history, and related issues

[Narukami]

I strive to be a vulgar popularist. :wink:

I think that in an important and profound way, there is no higher calling.

Indeed, is that not the point?

If we can excite our students, be they 3, 30 or 30,000 and impart to them not only the information but a thirst to know more have we not done something worthwhile?

We can not hope to teach our students everything just as out instructors could not impart to us all that we could or should know. However many of us were inspired to know more, and that inspiration has carried us to this point and hopefully will carry us further still.

History should be exciting, and there is no reason it can not be both interesting and accurate. Being both may not be easy, but that is the challenge all teachers accept, or should, in the classroom or the printed page.

Some students you will never reach no matter how much singing and dancing you may do, but for everyone we do inspire with the love of learning, the thirst to know more, then we have succeed even if it is but a small success.

And now I will climb down off the soap box and return to my reading (an anthology of Japanese puppet plays in translation).

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Narukami