Coincidência...

Sentei-me ao computador para escrever um pouco sobre o ensino da História e, antes de começar, dando uma volta pelos meus favoritos, encontrei este artigo na Spectator. Achei que estava tudo dito!

The oral epics of pre-literate cultures, from Homeric Greece to the Siberia of Maadai-Kara, saw poets revered as the guardians of national consciousness. In denying children the thrill of our own epic historical narrative we also deny them the option to compare, to judge, above all to refuse. Surely the point of all humanities teaching is not the regurgitation of whichever facts the government deems appropriate, but the ability, quite simply, to think?

(Lisa Hilton, We treat our pupils like Aldous Huxley’s Gammas, in Spectator, 04.02.2009)