Amnesia?
up late doing some research for my essay for my history/philosophy course and found an interesting quote.
“amnesia seemed to be a condition of patriotism and this pervaded attitudes toward the teaching and writing of Australian history.”
How true, as I am only now finding out.
When I first looked at this essay question I thought I knew the answer.
The essay is about the role of religion in Australian history.
It seems that I was suffering from this. I now realise I learned crap all about Aussie history in the 20 history courses (all but one were only for one term each, the last was year 11 modern history) i took at high school. I was even declared first in history in year 10... What a crock. But hey I can tell you heaps about American history....
This makes me sad :(
“amnesia seemed to be a condition of patriotism and this pervaded attitudes toward the teaching and writing of Australian history.”
How true, as I am only now finding out.
When I first looked at this essay question I thought I knew the answer.
The essay is about the role of religion in Australian history.
It seems that I was suffering from this. I now realise I learned crap all about Aussie history in the 20 history courses (all but one were only for one term each, the last was year 11 modern history) i took at high school. I was even declared first in history in year 10... What a crock. But hey I can tell you heaps about American history....
This makes me sad :(