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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: nihil who wrote (45890)7/17/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Nihil,

I wish you had been my History teacher- or my children's- early on. I think history has got to be the WORST taught subject in our schools. It is so dead and so badly presented to young children that they are lost before they can get excited about their world. I know no history, despite taking the required college World History and American History; I am confused and bored to tears by books on it. I am green with envy as Dan devours book after book on different eras, whatever his passion is at the time (he just finished with the Civil War and is now into reading all he can find on espionage) and reads passages aloud to me or exclaims suddenly- "Wow!".

I know jbe dislikes any attempt at fictionalizing (is that a word?) but I can't help but think that it might inspire a bit more interest and appreciation of the past than the dry facts in the textbooks. There must be some way to get children interested. Because most aren't. or maybe kids just live so much in the NOW, it isn't feasible.

AMmo loved the Civil War computer game and has gotten very interested in that subject. Read Killer Angels, and wants to visit some battlefields. He also will read about WWII, but he does terribly in his History classes.

I have a new book called,"The End of the World". It is all first person accounts of major events, and for once I am able to enter the scene, but I fear it is too late for me. A block exists that I can't seem to get past, and right now I would rather spend my time reading women's writings and poetry. The thought of history gives me the same feeling that algebra does.
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