Well, I'm taking a history class in school... Currently I'm Jemsiting AND doing the homework for it. My World History teacher, Ms. O'Day (BEST TEACHER EVER!!! Well, ONE of them anyways...) said that when a lot of adults reach their late 30's - early 40's, they begin to get very interested in history. Even if you're not THAT age, does history interest you???
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Well, I think it depends on your teacher, quite truthfully.
Ms. O'Day fascinates me to every possible end of the world, because she SO knows what she's talking about!
And the thing that fascinates me the most is HOW we know so much about ancient people, (Legalism? Confucianism? Daoism? all from ANCIENT CHINA!!), yet we're not even 100% sure about ANYTHING! It's all just inferencing.. Everything we are learning COULD be wrong, but will WE ever know?
I'm in my mid thirties and still find it realitivley boring, but some times something on the history channel will peak my interest. I will say I have a better appreciation for the need to learn history though.
Depends on what aspect of history, though I do notice alot of people older than me (I almost said adults, then realized, techincally I am one) do have alot of history books.
I do try to know as many facts about as many subjects as possible though, so eventually I'm sure history will interest me more.
i always slept through history in middle/high school. im about 3 years out of high school and i find it fascinating now, mostly stuff about ancient civilizations etc.
I love history! I always look up good values in certain history, why a person/empire rise and why does it falls, learning from history is good! I don't think people hate history but people hate their own history
I found most modern history very boring because its mostly war, war and more war (Post Renaissance actually) but anything before thats pritty cool, like the Dark Ages, the Renaissance and especially the early civilizations like Egypt, Greece, Rome, Early Americas, Including early native americans, and Mesoamerican civilizations, pre-biblical periods and even early man, pre and post Ice Age (Wisconsin glaciation), and the Three Ages (Stone, Bronze and Iron) and even the beginnings of Man.
I just discussing with my girlfriend, how boring most teachers make their history classes. They make you feel like its useless stuff. They should always discuss the 'relevance' of history before yapping about the specifics, and add a bit of spice to it. you do that, and bingo: people actually care.
True, true.
Some teachers are awful, and some are just amazing!
Like Ms. O'Day for example.. :lol:
And I'm not brown-nosing here, I'm just saying that she's incredible.
She talks about it in a modern way.
My old, perverted history teacher in seventh grade talked about the Revolutionary War as if he was there!
"And the men walked over the hill and gazed across the field in dismay! One man turned to the other and said, 'I don't know if we'll win this one, Johnny, but we sure as hel* will try!' and they RACED over the field to fight the men in the red coats! We called them.. THE RED COATS!"
For many (most?) people, history is boring because they can't identify with the time(s). And [sadly] many don't like to read to begin with. Television does make it more interesting for most people because it is packaged and shortened.
"Older" people seem to like history more but that may be mostly because they have been alive during more of that history or time.
I'm in that older age group you mention and I'm bored to tears of things like the Civil War, Boston Tea Party, etc. But I'm pretty much a technology person so those eras have no interest for me. I'm more of a tomorrow person than a yesterday person.
I'd say it's more a fact that as you get older you take more interest in what goes on in the world than you did when you were younger, not so much in history. But to help understand more of what makes the world tick, knowledge of history can sure help.
And who knows, maybe you will become a music superstar AND a history professor - and let's hope one like Ms. O'Day and not the "perverted" one that young girls will talk bad about on jemsite.
I have always been facinated by history, and now I am in my thirties and still love it. Read about Roman history its like looking into a mirror of where we are today sad and scary.
Yes, thats a great subject. You did not mess with Rome back in the day. We were taught that the Romans had salted the earth after they sacked Carthage turns out that is false. Cool idea though.
I should send you my outline.... It's fascinating!
Four of the five sources I gathered said that salt WAS sewn into the ground, so my teacher told me to go along with that unless I could back the other one up... :roll:
also i belive that everything is repeating over and over again , same situtation just different people and places . Some outcomes still apply and if people would just look to history for answers we'd all be a lot better off .
example :
neapoleon tries to invade what we know as russia during the winter , fails horribly .
Hitler a few hundred years later tries to invade russia during winter , fails miserably. had he done his history homework things may have come out very differently and we'd all be speakin german or japanes depending on which half of the country you live on .
Hitler a few hundred years later tries to invade russia during winter , fails miserably. had he done his history homework things may have come out very differently and we'd all be speakin german or japanes depending on which half of the country you live on .
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