History as Prologue

Tag: research skills

  • No, history doesn’t repeat itself

    No, history doesn’t repeat itself

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    Mark Thomas
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    No, history doesn’t repeat itself I’m as guilty as the next person of having blithely stated something no history teacher should ever accept, let alone utter. History does not repeat itself. Period. So what’s the purpose, the value of studying history if not to avoid making the same mistakes in the future? The answer has…

  • Teaching research skills before students go solo

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    Mark Thomas
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    Teach research skills before your students go solo My flight instructor climbed out from the Cessna’s right seat and casually told me to “taker her up, fly the pattern, land and taxi back here.” Both of us knew I was prepared. It was my sixteenth birthday, the youngest age one can solo a powered aircraft.…