What you guys think of the things they teach?I don't like it because they teach you about countries around the world hundreds of years..which isn't relevent to us at all and it puts images in our head of that country centuries ago when they're completely different culturally now..like England..they teach us in school that English people try to be proper and are snotty and eat tea every day etc etc when that is completely wrong and kids from England are just like kids in the United States..for the most partthey should teach us about what it's like now in countries around the world, so we are more aware of the realities of people and their cultures
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>they should teach us about what it's like now in countries around the world, so we are more aware of the realities of people and their cultures</div>Theres classes like that in college
Well, I like World History. I just get really into it when we learn about the World Wars etc. As for this topic, I can see your point...it would make sense.
Well, the concept of getting children thinking that the English is snotty and all that is a stereotypical thing that television projects. History teaches us mistakes, and accomplishments of our ancestors. If they dont teach it in school, where will they teach it? You learn so much moraly from History, and if they only taught todays world, people would ask questions on how it lead up to todays cultures. To tell you the truhth, I dont know what I would do with History in school...its the only subject I look forward too. History has been being taught since the Roman and Greek times, and thats how we have advanced as civilizations. Greeks learned from peoples like the Egyptians, Romans learned from the Greeks, and all Western Civilization is based and spiraled from the Roman Empire, so History isnt just some class...History is something that helps us learn and build off of our ancestors and fathers.And I dont know about where you live, but in my Highschool, we learned present-day cultures in World Geography.
:nasty: I don't take History. Last year and this year I've been taking French instead...I had to take History of the US 2 summers ago tho.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ElMaster @ Dec 22 2006, 09:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>:nasty: I don't take History. Last year and this year I've been taking French instead...I had to take History of the US 2 summers ago tho.</div>Dude...I hate to change the topic but change that avatar and sig...please.
Just to go along with what I was saying...If we had the records and accounts the Aztecs had about brain surgery, we would be so much more advance in the medical field, but when the conquistadors burned all those books and and pretty much history, we lost all strides in the medical field of the most advanced people medical wise...so without that small piece of History, we are set back so far in the medical field than we would be if we have those books by the Aztecs.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (austingriz76 @ Dec 23 2006, 12:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Well, the concept of getting children thinking that the English is snotty and all that is a stereotypical thing that television projects. History teaches us mistakes, and accomplishments of our ancestors. If they dont teach it in school, where will they teach it? You learn so much moraly from History, and if they only taught todays world, people would ask questions on how it lead up to todays cultures. To tell you the truhth, I dont know what I would do with History in school...its the only subject I look forward too. History has been being taught since the Roman and Greek times, and thats how we have advanced as civilizations. Greeks learned from peoples like the Egyptians, Romans learned from the Greeks, and all Western Civilization is based and spiraled from the Roman Empire, so History isnt just some class...History is something that helps us learn and build off of our ancestors and fathers.And I dont know about where you live, but in my Highschool, we learned present-day cultures in World Geography.</div>I know why history is taughtI sweat itit's just I hate how we learn about all the stereotypes of countries way back 100s of 1000s of years ago and don't get enough knowledge about the presentthe present and the past are both important to make a better future..you can't just teach the past and not teach about the present
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Dec 23 2006, 12:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I know why history is taughtI sweat itit's just I hate how we learn about all the stereotypes of countries way back 100s of 1000s of years ago and don't get enough knowledge about the presentthe present and the past are both important to make a better future..you can't just teach the past and not teach about the present</div>I dont understand what you mean by stereotypes...I dont learn that, and whoever does probably cant seperate today from the past. I mean....I dont think people think Germans are all Jew killers...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LakersFan247 @ Dec 23 2006, 01:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Dude...I hate to change the topic but change that avatar and sig...please.</div>How do you not like Lloyd Banks>?
"to know where one has been is to know where one is going"- I forget who said that; but it's very true when you look at whats going on today. History is a chain reaction, stuff which happened thousands of years ago is still effecting us today. take for example the rift between the Sunni and Shi'ite; they're both Muslims, just one believe Abu Bakr(sp?) was Mohammads successor, and they still kill each other and discriminate against one and other because of that. Personally I think how history is taught in public education is an abomination. in High school there are basically three branches of history you need to take; State, World, and US. yet each of these disaplines leave out huge portions of actual history; state history rarely discusses the native americans, world history should be called western history because it the only time it describes the east in during the Alexanderian Invasion, Marco Polo, the age of navigation and the second world war; and US history leaves out huge gaps which are important while it focuses a lot of attention of myths. I understand that there is limited time to fit every thing into one school year, but there are more important things to learn about than what they cover.I'm going off topic here, but I hate this new neo-libral approach to history. some places actually want to take out Slavery and the Mexican-American war from the curiculum of high schools because these things make some students feel bad. its totally rediculas, at one point in history every group of people have been dominated by another group of people, it happened get over it and by not teaching these issues you're degrading the work that some people did to chage the situation.
Well, those are the basics of History. Unfortunely History isnt taken as seriously as Math or English...or even f*cking Spanish( :thumbdn1: ), so thats why you dont go into specifics...cause anything else besides Marco Polo, the Greek civialiation is being specific...if Hisotry classes did, we wouldnt get passed the low middle ages. Thats why you takr advance history classes. And you learn present day affairs and cultures in World Geography.....atleast where im from you do.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Dec 22 2006, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>they teach us in school that English people try to be proper and are snotty and eat tea every day etc etc when that is completely wrong and kids from England are just like kids in the United States..for the most part</div>You can't eat tea, silly.
If your teacher teaches you that English people sit around all day drinking tea, your teacher is a complete moron. I would think that there are much more important and less vague things to teach about world history. There is a course that most high schools have that is about people in today's world. It's called geography.
This thread is like saying "in english why don't they teach you spanish. I mean you already know english so why don't they tell you something new and useful"History and current events are two different things. there are classes for both. and you can (god forbid) read a newspaper if you don't have a current events class, it'll give you a less biased view than a teacher
My teacher is amazing. He teaches us real well and not anything like what was posted in the beginning post. I don't know of any teachers that teach that stuff about English people? Everyone pretty much knows that they are normal.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Dec 23 2006, 12:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>yeah but they should teach it in high school toonot everybody goes to college</div>Called geography dude.
