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#Quotes #History #Boneheads #TeachingHistory #BiographicalHistory #MartinGardner
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all. -Martin Gardner, mathematician and writer (21 Oct 1914-2010)
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LGBTQ Primary Sources for the classroom: https://chssp.ucdavis.edu/lgbtq-primary-sources #HistGender #HistSex #TeachingHistory #Histodons
(via https://www.threads.net/@professorrouse/post/CvuwgnkL23b/)