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Balance and comprehensiveness in teaching are at best recipes for boredom. I happily confess: I’ve never been balanced in my teaching, and I simply don’t know enough to be comprehensive.
by Andreas Huyssen (an interview with him on the issue of memory here)
One more link, just for myself. It can be interesting for some of you as well.
Names - A chapter on the prohibition of Jewish or biblical names in Nazi Germany. From Viktor Klemperer's Lingua tertii Imperii (the degeneration of language under dictatorship)