A statement of teaching philosophy

Abstract

I consider my teaching and research objectives to be pretty much the same. Early in my undergraduate days I took my cue from the British historian, E.H. Carr. He observed that learning from history was never a one way process. He said that: “to lean about the present in the light of the past, means also to learn of the past in the light of the present.” He contended that “The function of history is to promote a profound understanding of both the past and present through a study of the interrelationship between them.”