Freeman Tilden
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Biography
Freeman Tilden was one of the first people to set down the principles and theories of heritage interpretation in his 1957 book, Interpreting Our Heritage.
"...you sometimes note an impatience on the part of a specialist that the public does not show sufficient interest in his assemblage of information as such. He is likely to conclude that the average person is somewhat stupid. The opposite is true. It is a sign of native intelligence on the part of any person not to clutter his mind with indigestibles."