Erinnerung

[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Erinnerung

Berlin, 17. Juni 1953: Traue nicht deinem Geschichtsbuch.

Berlin, June 17th 1953: Don't trust your history book.

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[red-child.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't say too little, it's worthwhile to ask if it didn't say things the wrong way. Following an outright lie to get a good grade is fine, so long as you keep in mind: none of it fits with what really happened.

[matrixmann]

How do you get to asking this? What do you think you've done wrong?

[red-child.livejournal.com]

I grew up in America, I had a soft spot for my education... But as I opened my eyes I saw the things I said as true, more and more and more. The textbooks are better than nothing and I do appreciate them, but for how expensive they are they sure do keep the students from a lot of knowledge as well as teaching a lot of misleading things.

[matrixmann]

That's somehow a reason why I mostly turned away from subject literature.
It's useful for teaching you how to get on your legs, if you really know nothing about a subject. But - anytime then you happen to stick to the words of it too much and that sort of clouds your mind. Makes you become unable, closed to all things that exist in a certain direction too and that this directive in the books doesn't accept (or mention).
Speaking, it's much more important, if you've made yourself smart through reading a lot, that you get your own opinion about things. Also, your own skills of perception to draw a logic connection. In the end it will be up to these skills to judge the world and decide what to do.