Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Zkuq said:

S.Peelman said:

Yes.

I've always said 'history' is by far the most important subject in school. Because contrary to pretty much every other subject, it makes one wiser. It teaches what went right and what went wrong. Without knowing what was before, things are bound to repeat itself. Sadly politicians are blind and don't see it that way for some reason.

I'm not sure that's true, at least to a significant extent. I was pretty interested in some history (but definitely not all) in school, but I don't think I was mature enough to draw any notable conclusion about how the world works. By the time I was mature enough, history would probably have been forgotten already, if I didn't have some interest in it anyway. I'm sure there are many students are mature enough to gain more wisdom from studying history in school, but at the same time, I consider myself fairly smart, so a large chunk of people is probably just not very well equipped to gain much insight from studying history in school.

Now if we could teach people history at a more mature age, that would be a different story. But sadly there's no good way to do so at the moment.

This is why we went through it twice (dunno if it's still done that way, the school system has drastically changed since my time), once early on when we're barely 10-12 years old to get the basics (and maybe some interest), and then again when we're 13-17 years old (much more detailed and annotated) and then also supplemented with modern history (or contemporary world history), which is more on politics and other things that move the world of today, like climate change or pollution.