School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. … - Alan Kay

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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

Alan Kay

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

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