Tuesday, November 13, 2007
6:46 PM
I'm going to pass a rather avant garde view here and kinda unsure if people doing history in the current A level syllabus are going to identify with this but here goes.
History should be more about the beauty of spontaneous and thought-provoking arguments than just recalling content (even though some thought goes into selection of info I guess.) Cause content knowledge is ephemeral at the end of the day.
I tried this essay based totally on argument and just three basic facts (quite momentous if you are in the know) and got the following comments:
'Brilliant argument and form but short on historical material'
Ahh. Can't the system be more flexible.