One of the biggest issues with my school’s teaching of history is that it failed to communicate how much of history is just cause and effect, contexts and forces, humans and ideas.
My school focused a lot on when and what happened. A lot of human nature and why things happened the way it did is what makes it interesting, but that part was usually very brief.
I really appreciate now that my schools mostly tried to teach things in order. A caused B caused C, etc.
Unfortunately I moved countries a few times, so instead I got 1914 to “now” three times, and basically nothing between the middle ages and the 20th century.
One of the biggest issues with my school’s teaching of history is that it failed to communicate how much of history is just cause and effect, contexts and forces, humans and ideas.
My school focused a lot on when and what happened. A lot of human nature and why things happened the way it did is what makes it interesting, but that part was usually very brief.
I really appreciate now that my schools mostly tried to teach things in order. A caused B caused C, etc.
Unfortunately I moved countries a few times, so instead I got 1914 to “now” three times, and basically nothing between the middle ages and the 20th century.