Re:Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
by throwaway48476 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:42AM
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History is just terribly taught and practiced. At the core history is just telling stories which are always interesting when told well.
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Re:Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
by Maken on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:33AM
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History is terribly taught because it's often about the how and not the why.
Re:Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
by teqsun on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @12:23PM
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Even worse is the overemphasis on when (in terms of exactness).
Knowing the rough order of events (as per the flow of a story) is important, as is the relative timespan, but a lot of history schooling puts too much emphasis on knowing the exact dates of certain events, which I think really subtracts the experience for many.