Post by Jérémie Keller on Dec 31, 2016 22:58:57 GMT -5
JÉRÉMIE KELLER
BASIC INFORMATION
[ FULL NAME ] Jérémie Keller
[ FACECLAIM ] Scott Eastwood
[ DATE OF BIRTH ] January 24
[ AGE ] 31
[ GENDER ] Guy
[ SEXUALITY ] Mostly straight
[ BLOOD STATUS ] Mixed
[ HOUSE ] Ophiuchus alum
[ OCCUPATION ] History of Magic Professor
[ WAND ] [beech, hippogriff feather, swishy, good for occlumency, history work, charms, writing spells
[ BOGGART ] a repeat of the fire in Alexandria/censorship
[ AMORTENTIA ] when you light a candle, new book, sandalwood (like the old jewelry boxes and old libraries)
[ FACECLAIM ] Scott Eastwood
[ DATE OF BIRTH ] January 24
[ AGE ] 31
[ GENDER ] Guy
[ SEXUALITY ] Mostly straight
[ BLOOD STATUS ] Mixed
[ HOUSE ] Ophiuchus alum
[ OCCUPATION ] History of Magic Professor
[ WAND ] [beech, hippogriff feather, swishy, good for occlumency, history work, charms, writing spells
[ BOGGART ] a repeat of the fire in Alexandria/censorship
[ AMORTENTIA ] when you light a candle, new book, sandalwood (like the old jewelry boxes and old libraries)
WHO ARE YOU?
[ PERSONALITY TRAITS ]
[ LIKES ] History, teaching, ancient runes, adventures, anthropology (especially cultural and linguistical )
[ DISLIKES ] yappy dogs, censorship, the American educational system, stiffling the information flow
[ STRENGTHS ] seeing all sides, creative, good with words, easy to talk to
[ WEAKNESSES ] first editions, intelligent people, homecooked food, sometimes oblivious, can get carried away by a topic
[ PET PEEVES ] people who refuse to learn history (because you know, the past was never repeated), the American educational system, when people bend pages to mark their spot instead of using a god damn bookmark
[ HOBBIES ] reading, research, lesson planning, Risk, shooting
[ LIKES ] History, teaching, ancient runes, adventures, anthropology (especially cultural and linguistical )
[ DISLIKES ] yappy dogs, censorship, the American educational system, stiffling the information flow
[ STRENGTHS ] seeing all sides, creative, good with words, easy to talk to
[ WEAKNESSES ] first editions, intelligent people, homecooked food, sometimes oblivious, can get carried away by a topic
[ PET PEEVES ] people who refuse to learn history (because you know, the past was never repeated), the American educational system, when people bend pages to mark their spot instead of using a god damn bookmark
[ HOBBIES ] reading, research, lesson planning, Risk, shooting
THE FAMILY TREE
[ MOTHER ] Marie Keller [ 54] [ Librarian ]
[ FATHER ] Edgar Keller [56 ] [ Anthropologist ]
[ BROTHER ] Jonathon Keller [33] [ Archaeologist ]
[ NIECE ] Roxanne Keller [ 12] [ student]
[ FATHER ] Edgar Keller [56 ] [ Anthropologist ]
[ BROTHER ] Jonathon Keller [33] [ Archaeologist ]
[ NIECE ] Roxanne Keller [ 12] [ student]
WAY BACK WHEN...
[ HISTORY ]
It's history time? Oh, sweet, I love history. Did you know that, although the root word is taken from the Greek ἱστορία, it didn't actually become a common word until the Anglo-Normans took it in the fourteenth century? 'Historian' didn't even really become a thing until the mid 1500's either. People always think 'history' means learning about the past, and it does, but the actual definition is inquiry. it is knowledge acquired by investigation.
It is not what they are currently teaching anymore - spoon feeding children what they want them to think and never allowing them to think for themselves. To research things themselves. So in that sense, no one is truly learning history anymore. Because it isn't black and white and facts. There are undercurrents and rip tides. There is a subtlety to the way some events panned out, both in the magical and Muggle worlds, and the lines between what is right and what is wrong are so blurred in actuality.
Maybe it's because I was born in a more forward thinking country with more forward thinking parents. My mother is a librarian and my father is an anthropologist. They raised my brother and myself to think for ourselves, to pursue the truth in knowledge. And we did. It was easy when we spent our lives around knowledge and information. Books and scrolls.
When it was time for school, we both managed to get accepted into Beauregard. It was in an actual school setting I started to realise how watered down history was being taught. And students just accepted it as it was.
After graduating, I spent time traveling and working with my dad and brother on some projects. I even did a short stint teaching in a Muggle high school in America. Yeah. Don't even get me started on that. But last year, Beauregard had an opening for History of Magic and I couldn't resist applying. Because magical history in some cases is even more watered down than muggle history. The Ministry hates admitting their faults and wrong doings, but it isn't right to fill the next generation with wrong information.
It is not what they are currently teaching anymore - spoon feeding children what they want them to think and never allowing them to think for themselves. To research things themselves. So in that sense, no one is truly learning history anymore. Because it isn't black and white and facts. There are undercurrents and rip tides. There is a subtlety to the way some events panned out, both in the magical and Muggle worlds, and the lines between what is right and what is wrong are so blurred in actuality.
Maybe it's because I was born in a more forward thinking country with more forward thinking parents. My mother is a librarian and my father is an anthropologist. They raised my brother and myself to think for ourselves, to pursue the truth in knowledge. And we did. It was easy when we spent our lives around knowledge and information. Books and scrolls.
When it was time for school, we both managed to get accepted into Beauregard. It was in an actual school setting I started to realise how watered down history was being taught. And students just accepted it as it was.
After graduating, I spent time traveling and working with my dad and brother on some projects. I even did a short stint teaching in a Muggle high school in America. Yeah. Don't even get me started on that. But last year, Beauregard had an opening for History of Magic and I couldn't resist applying. Because magical history in some cases is even more watered down than muggle history. The Ministry hates admitting their faults and wrong doings, but it isn't right to fill the next generation with wrong information.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
[ WHAT SHOULD WE CALL YOU? ] [ Lor ]
[ RULES PASSWORD ] [ Flippity. ]
[ RULES PASSWORD ] [ Flippity. ]