Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… people (including many university students) when tested about facts concerning, let us say, the Second World War, … … Worst than that, they are unable to tell something exact about events that happened ten years before.” What terrifies me about this trend is that, as soon as we start to forget about …