Group Tasks

Having read the accounts of history in relation to China, the U. K. and the U. S., choose one or more of the following quotes that interest you, to write a reflection upon how each of the countries has presented itself, through its history, to the world.

? "History is not a succession of events, it is the links between them. ” (E. Evans-Pritchard)

? "It is a mark of civilized man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticize them, not to swallow them whole. ”(M. I. Finley)

? "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ” (William Hazlitt)

? "The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. ” (G. K. Chesterton)

? "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ” (Cicero)

? "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. ” (Aldous Huxley)

? "The history of the world is the history of the privileged few. ” (Henry Miller)

? "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” (H. G. Wells)