My view on humanities is not to teach ad hoc stuff. I don't want to just go through a chronological walkthrough of history, but make sure that the kids understand why something happened. Then go through similar events in other countries and other time periods to really drill it into their heads, the patterns of mankind and some common sense stuff (what happens when the people are unhappy? What happens when a country goes to war or over extends?).
I see so many people just learning stuff ad hoc, and doing stuff routinely without just stopping and saying WHY? If I ever get a kid, I'm going to teach him basic grammar and make sure he can communicate properly, and then every single fucking time ask him "Why did you do this? Why did this happen? Why is the world like this?".
Why did the artist draw the painting like that? Why did history occur as it did? Why, why, why.
That's what education should be in my opinion. Not how something happened, or what happened, but WHY it happens. You don't teach math by giving an answer, but a process. By giving a universal process (curiosity and trying to understand the situation), instead of ad hoc (remembering a set of rules, a system, and just blindly applying them), the kid would be well off.
