Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.