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• ‟ Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

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• ‟ I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

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• ‟ Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

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• ‟ Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

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• ‟ I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

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• ‟ What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

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• ‟ If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.

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• ‟ Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation needs to be complemented with an overview, which I think is scientific commonsense.

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