Knowledge Of Knowledge In Freeman Tilden's Interpreting Our Heritage

In the first chapters of his book, Interpreting Our Heritage, Freeman Tilden repeatedly restates the point that the most important skill of historians (and by relation teachers, instructors, and tour guides) is interpretation. While it is fantastic to have a pool of information from which to draw from, unless one is able to make this information applicable, understandable, and relatable to those whom they come into contact with, it is practically worthless. Of course, historians are not the only group for whom a wealth of knowledge but inability to interpret said knowledge is a problem. Ultimately, people across various fields of study, including scientists as mentioned by Tilden, struggle with this. With that said, it appears only sensible,
If one thinks of different ideologies as subjects, similar to historical concepts, scientific concepts, or even journalism, then it makes sense that there are purists. Similar to the specialists described by Tilden, they may believe that those who do not understand their ideas, their information, the way they do are stupid (Tilden 23). Such thinking places the burden on making sense of information, not on the expert who should be most able to convey and properly connect the information they supposedly know so well, but instead on the average member of the masses. Such an expectation simply is not reasonable (Tilden 23). If an expert in any field, whether it be an event or even a political ideology truly believes in its importance, then they must take that effort upon themselves to make that information accessible. Instead of expecting the common person to dedicate unrealistic time and energy into reading deep, complex books of ideology, which they themselves might be unable to grasp. Instead to be realistic, terrorists had to make their ideas and agendas accessible and understandable for the general people. Although Lenin may have discussed the importance of literature