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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
And that's our problem.
We have the mentality in most schools to teach only the 'important' stuff. Well, I would argue, that in American history every President was important. Every high school kid should be able to rattle off all 44 of our Presidents.
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Yeah, but what use is knowing their individual names if the kids can't identify the presidents with their contributions, their crisis, understand the historical context of each American president and their eras? Names of politicians is far less important than understand the overall breadth of history. how it fits togehter, it's lessons, and being able to grasp the entire flow of these events and how we got here.
Knowing the names of politicians is pretty much useless trivia knowledge in my book unless you know the background that accompanies it, you might as well use the brain space for something else.