Choice in topic makes all the difference!

I absolutely get why they needed to whip us through some 10,000 years of human history, so we had at least a broad idea of where human society came from, but goddamn is it a slog and a morale killer.

Especially when classes poorly co-ordinate from one grade to the next, and each subsequent class has to spent 1/4 of its time trying to make sure you got the background information you were supposed to learn last year.

Thinking back, I never liked history because I never had any memory for numbers/dates, and exams were all about that.

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.

I like knowing stuff. Knowing stuff is great!

What I don't like is having to learn stuff.

Me reading history on c/historymemes.

for me it was a combination of the hour long lectures and then reading something that lacks creative prose. textbooks felt more like a chore than something I could enjoy reading, and then I'd zone out for an hour and learn absolutely nothing.

the only time I was genuinely interested in history during school was learning about the rennaisance period in middle school. I fucking loved runescape at the time so I had a reason to really get into the lessons. probably the only history exam I got 100% on. the second closest time was the very beginning of world history in high school, cause I was fascinated in how humans lived before civilizations started forming. that 'section' was a good 15 minutes of the first class of the year and then we skipped ahead (:

Now that I'm out of school I try to learn about history whenever I can because I know how important it is, I just wish I had a better experience with it in school. Lectures are evil I wish they weren't my only option back then.

Learning history after learning nothing but STEM and then working in the MIC until your late 20s

Most history lessons were really bad - at least the one I had. They fed us this boring overview while leaving out the interesting stuff.

Just think about current events: corruption, backstabbing, ethnic cleansing, foreign powers influencing elections, removing heads of state...

I don't think the past was any less of a mess. We just got the cleaned-up and dumbed-down version. Boring and probably done to protect the kids from knowing how f'ed up the world really is.

Real history could be fun.

We only learn things that have practical function in our life. If 'history' is a distorted propaganda field, we will naturally find no importance in the lessons being taught, no matter if they technically happened or not, if it is not a statistically valid representation of what will happen in the future. After all, you cannot change the past, so the only purpose of history is how it helps the future.