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To: Rambi who wrote (45892)	7/17/1999 1:35:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

penni, If it makes you feel any better, I too actually prefer reading poetry and fiction to reading "history," as a general rule. I can get away with it because I have specialized in "intellectual history" -- which can mean just about anything. <g> But still, fiction is fiction, and history is history. The "facts" in themselves are not dry; it's the writing makes them so. Joan

To: Rambi who wrote (45892)	7/17/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think history has got to be the WORST taught subject in our schools. A very simple reason for that (in my experience anyway): history is invariably the preferred teaching profession for half the football and basketball coaches in the country. Every high school history teacher I had was a coach. They used to also show up a lot in what was once known as "civics." I think it's because it's the teaching concentration you can take in college that does not require you to be proficient in math, science or English. Most coaches don't have much of a predilection for such things. In my experience, most coaches also tended to have a somewhat overly "mom and apple pie" view of America. I remember getting a "C" on a perfectly good term paper on the Spanish-American War because I had the temerity to point out that it was pretty much unjustified and basically declared for political reasons. And he wrote on it...So what about "Remember the Maine!!"?