The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.
As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.
Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the "invaluable mental power we call judgment.
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