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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: History Syllabi (Was: Plantagenet Correct Usage?)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:24:10 +0100
References: <015501c0ff78$25fefc40$0101a8c0@rosie>, <3B3AF29D.E1512DDF@cwcom.net>, <3b3cc007$0$14542$19c6ad13@news.siscom.net>


"In retrospect, it was actually quite a good curriculum, but it was very
dull because it made absolutely no sense to us -- there was no context
for all this stuff."

Chris Bennett ---- 29 June 2001
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What an incredibly silly sentence. It's logically inconsistent as well.

It has no intelligent meaning whatsoever.

Pure Adolescent Twaddle.

PFK Manure.

You're right, Renia. We have several intellectually 'bent',
mal-educated, generations to deal with ---- essentially schlock ----
damaged goods in the marketplace.

And then we have this bromide from Bennett:

"We did an intro course on historical methodology, the French
Revolution, Europe in the 19th century, China and Japan in the 19th and
20th (up to 1949/37), rise of Nazism, causes of 1st and 2nd world war,
Russian revolution and Stalin, and UK in the 1930s (I don;t [sic]
remember much about this one, it was pretty boring).
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Indeed.

I imagine Bennett finds all sorts of quite interesting things
"boring" ---- people often carp about that, when they don't understand
what's going on.

Pathetic!

Deus Vult.
--

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

"Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and
kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been, Which bards in
fealty to Apollo hold." -- John Keats [1795-1821] -- Poems [1817] -- "On
First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"

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