Screw You History Class - Page 2

On April 12 2009 13:53 Jibba wrote:
Sonu, are you in highschool?

Highschool history classes tend to be taught by athletics coaches, because stupid administrators think you can just teach history by following the text. They're completely wrong.

On April 12 2009 12:04 RobRoy2501 wrote:
The problem is not history, the problem is that school doesn't teach history, it teaches a fairytale.

On April 12 2009 15:53 IdrA wrote:
history class is fun when you get a lazy,smart teacher
sit around discussing all day instead of doing work that hed have to grade.

On April 12 2009 15:47 [DUF]MethodMan wrote:
I love history, but you are going crazy when having it at school in Germany. You have history classes from like 7th or 8th to the 13th (last) grade. All these years can be put into one single expression: WW2. You do nothing else than reading about how bad you should feel because you were born German.

On April 12 2009 15:07 Not_Computer wrote:
aside from wars, Canadian history is pretty darn boring imo

On April 12 2009 13:34 JinSol wrote:
i also have a class that i hate with a passion. it's called dimensions of culture 3 here at ucsd. first of all, the name of the class is "imagination" which makes me question, why the hell are they making us take this class. it's definitely one of the most retarded classes i've taken as all the assignments are like busy work that just make you write bullshit. it doesn't even really help my writing at all, they don't give us any guidelines on how to make our writing better or anything. it's just "here's the prompt, give me 5 pages of bullshit" sort of thing. in discussion section, the ta made us analyze barbie girl by aqua. i was like wtf, give me my time back =_= haha, loved it when i heard some dude in class go like "the bird chirping sounds in the beginning and the end make it so the barbie world is a fantasy", i'm like where the hell did you think of that -_-

people who actually like to analyze songs, poems, and stories, props to you but it sure isn't my thing lol

anyone bound to marshall @ ucsd, beware and prepare for this crap lol

anyway, good luck with the class dude, hated those essays i had to write for ap us history too lol

On April 12 2009 15:47 [DUF]MethodMan wrote:
I love history, but you are going crazy when having it at school in Germany. You have history classes from like 7th or 8th to the 13th (last) grade. All these years can be put into one single expression: WW2. You do nothing else than reading about how bad you should feel because you were born German.

On April 13 2009 03:25 MoltkeWarding wrote:


This is a universal problem; most modern states have a centralized curriculum in which political bureaucrats determine content of history classes. At its best, history is an intellectually liberating discipline, and at its worst, a medium of indoctrination.