To know yourself, get to know the dead
Every child should discover the sweep of history - Ben Macintyre
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article2106450.ece
"history is becoming a potpourri of facts crammed into a few key periods, the past as buffet: a few Romans, some Tudor bloodletting, a soupçon of Classical Greece, a taste of Victorian urban squalor, with a massive serving of Nazis, again."
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