Go for it buddy. I just hope I don't get stuck with small children. That would totally ruin my master plan.
Even teaching in college that would happen. I have so many people in my history classes at college that don't give a shit about history.
It would be a teachers dream to have even one third of said teacher's class be interested in the teachings, even in University.
Well, with all due respect, no shit, since the people who remotely care for a particular subject tend to know that they should aim higher than a High School diploma. But even then, they all tend to be a bunch of assholes.
Unfortunately, today's students (and for all I know students in the past too) are not interested in history and don't particularly care for it because, let's face it, the way teachers teach it history is boring. But once you start looking into the parts of history that interest you, it suddenly gets a lot less boring. If we could get today's kids to actually look into a piece of history that interests them, then it could do wonders for the potential of the human race to learn from history. Hope that made at least some sense.
The problem is that most education systems teach you the basic history of the world in a few years, which makes it quite shallow and uninteresting. If you want to learn history, you'd best look it up yourself.
I completely agree with your post. The way history is taught (and the way most of my friends or fellow classmates see it), history is boring as fuck and useless as well. I myself gave less of a shit for a while, until I discovered the wonderful world of the American Civil War. It is just that, as Mosh states, they teach to much history in only a few years, and it is very broad, and lacks the details that make history great. In a practical way of thinking though, history only benefits teachers and politicians, so the practicality of using it in real life is limited.
From the wast histroy of mankind we can see that we are prone to being idiots and to be absolutely awesome in the same time.
I've always found it beneficial to look into every subject on my own, rather than have portions of it taught to me. That always turns out to be a much slower process. My liking of a particular subject is only going to influence which I look into more.
I agree with that teachers do have a problem with teaching History, mostly because there's so much history to go through, but not enough time to do it. You could really have a hole school year teaching about World War II and still not go over all the details.
