What do high school students gain from studying history?
If I’m teaching history, or government, or history of Beverly through primary research, you have a lot of different things that you can do, but the ultimate is that I think that all students should become their own historians. It’s one thing to read or memorize something from a book, but if you’re really going understand it, with history it takes detachment and it takes objectivity, and there’s truth in history. You just don’t write history or read history to make people feel good about themselves; there has to be a process that they go through. So I believe in letting students become their own historians and kind of going through the methods that it takes for research. And through this they’ll understand interpretation or perspective and what’s valid and what isn’t and, in most cases, we try and do original scholarship. Q: Why do you think it’s important to teach your students about civic virtue or civic responsibility? Well, first I think that citizenship skills are very important. T
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