Thursday, September 27, 2012

Ted Hope on History

Read this today. I felt it was appropriate
"My favorite class ever in high school was the day my history teacher told us he was going to teach us to read. History wasn’t what we read on the page,but the ideas they trying to express with showing it, the stuff in between the lines.  The only way to ever read history he said, was to find the bias.  Only the victors get published, but the nature of war is that the losers are the ones that die more.  The numbers that count are the bodies piled up in mounds, not the few who live to reap the spoils; look there for the true tale of what was lost while others won." 
- via Ted Hope, Hope for Film (http://bit.ly/PrRKCf)

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