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“There is a great similarity between legal evidence and historical evidence. The only difference lies in the fact that in legal evidence it is the judge who determines whether the account of a witness is acceptable or not... The historian is prosecuting attorney and defense attorney and the judge all rolled into one, and he is the narrator and the interpreter.”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo

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“We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.”
― Ambeth Ocampo, Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

tags: rizal

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“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: life-lessons, soul

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“The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.”
― Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

tags: childhood, comprehension, creativity, education, understanding, youth

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“If we cannot agree on what was important yesterday, what more on events that happened a hundred or three hundred years ago? The point here is that history is open ended and we cannot be sure about the past. So why study history? Because it teaches us to see the connections between events. Knowing how and why a certain event happened is helpful because in many cases people separated by time and place can sometimes be in similar situations. They can be mentally contemporaneous without knowing it. History gives us hindsight.”
― Ambeth Ocampo, Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

tags: history

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Teaching English as a Foreign Language — 31 members — last activity Sep 13, 2012 12:06AM
For those who teach English as a foreign or second language. A place to give advice, get advice, book recomendations and so on.

Social Studies Education — 44 members — last activity Oct 05, 2016 10:19AM
A group intended for all the readers who are teachers of the social studies: to share useful reading in the content areas, as well as in education as ...more

Wholesome History Reads Group — 476 members — last activity Nov 07, 2025 08:01PM
Welcome to the Wholesome History Reads Group! This group is dedicated to finding awesome history books that are entertaining, exciting, and above ...more

THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP — 2672 members — last activity 52 minutes ago
A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more

The History Book Club — 25734 members — last activity Dec 21, 2025 04:08AM
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

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