Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her to code

Re:Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her ... by edgyswingset on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:33PM (#8845638)

That part shocked me the most. History is one of the most eye-opening subjects you can possibly learn, and requires significant critical thinking skills to be able to really understand things. Think a big codebase is complex? Try understanding the motivations behind ancient law systems, and how they affected their peoples over the centuries.

Not to mention the perspective it can offer people. There are so many things repeated throughout history which could have been avoided had people focused more on an objective understanding of the past.

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Re:Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her ... by dozzie on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @02:14PM (#8846310)

Except that school doesn't teach any of that. It only focuses on bunch of facts like dates, without trying to penetrate the subject with any reasoning. After all, testing how one reasons is much, much more difficult than testing if he/she knows several dates correctly.

Moreover, structure of history classes is mostly time-based, without much correlation beside when something happened. But history could be split along different axes. How much connection is there between Russo-Swedish War and French Revolution, anyway? Why teach them one after another only because they happened at the same time?

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