Teaching History?

History is America just as baseball is history. However, both America and baseball have lost sight of why that dreaded word of history is important to both sanctity's. What is taught in American schools is the requirement to succeed and be successful. This has come at any cost. Be it PSAT's in order to pump the SAT scores even higher, or the desire to hand pick, as freshmen, the winners that will help the predestined teams succeed. History is overlooked in this era of achievement only by numbers. Why is history an overlooked and often understood subject. It is because it being taught to be a boring non-relevant subject. I love history and went through a 5 year period of my life seeing as just that, boring, and no relevance. Teachers do not care to inform about life only to teach about subjects. It is no wonder that rich affluent kids do well in tests in order to perform for their interested parents to see. When you take away the ability to please you see that the teaching is not doing any true personal motivation in most cases. Teach to inform that Lincoln wasn't just assassinated. Teach to inform that the War of 1812 still has meaning today. Teach that the emancipation proclamation still has problems today. Stay away from textbooks that are dull and disinteresting and show that Paul Revere wasn't alone, Dr. Mudd was important, FDR was nearly impeached, JFK started a war, and Reagan did not bring down the wall (Afghanistan did). Every day that you live is historical, and that is what this blog is about. History is yesterday or yesteryear depending on your point of view. None the less, History is a lesson to always draw upon and learn from. It is ironic to me that given this, the only people allowed to teach "history" must have a degree in "history". Yet I find that history can be so easily skewed and manipulated by those few that hold that power. I know history by constantly questioning my own and others history to further understand it. History is never permanent and will always be questioned by it truthfullness. But to teach History as truth and not look at new perspectives will deny the ability to truly enjoy the subject.
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By the way the bible was written by apostles who believed the people who told them the stories that they wrote a history.
Free thinking leads to fact finding of historical record. And that can still be wrong in the future historical record