To understand the Middle Ages is to escape the parochialism ... - Marc Bloch

"To understand the Middle Ages is to escape the parochialism of thinking our era is the standard."

Marc Bloch Education

Historian French 1886–1944

More from Marc Bloch

"History is not the past. It is the study of the past."

"The historian's task is to understand men, not to judge them."

"A document is not an inert mass of inert data to be manipulated at will by the historian."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Education opens doors."

"Education opens doors to endless possibilities."

"I ain't got the education you got, bub."

"You can't put a price on history."