@Background Pony #BEE8
Field trips can also help because you get to see where it happened and what things were like back then, though the availability of field trips depends on what’s nearby and how much money the school has.

I can tell you that when it comes to teaching history at school it depends on a teacher and person who’s learning from it.

Even better when you learn history from channels like Oversimplified

True.

@Litrojia
Exactly!! Especially for reading imo. It’s so much better choosing to read a book then to have school assign you one, along with a bunch of assignments on it

Some people didn’t even learn that much.

Everything in my American middle and highschool history class was all Holocaust all the time. And somehow not even that much about it.

Couldn’t tell you what else happened in WW2. Couldn’t tell you who Mengele was. Couldn’t even tell you where Auschwitz was, or that Auschwitz was the name of the town near it. But after like 5~ years of history class I could in fact tell you that Hitler did a Holocaust.

Didnt help that history in my school yesrs (from the UK) was always just Tudor, Victorian/Industrial Revolution and the interwar period

It really is the difference between a 7th grade history book and a wikipedia page.

History class: The Battle of Cannae was a pivotal moment in the 2nd Punic War.

Everywhere else: Hannibal’s campaign through Italy was running amok, winning battle after battle against far superior Roman forces through grit and guile. When Fabius was made the Roman Consul, he employed a very un-Roman strategy of avoiding direct conflict with Hannibal. As Hannibal’s army comprised a large part of Celtic or Gaul conscripts he gathered in opposition to the Romans, him going long periods of not fighting lead to many desertions among his newfound mercenaries and massively lowered his chances of a sustained campaign. However the “Fabian Strategy” garnered much scorn from the Roman population despite it being irrefutably more effective than losing constant fights. After Fabius’ term as Consul ended he was replaced with a pair of known hotheads as Consuls. They garnered an army of 80k to challenge Hannibal’s army of 50k. Hannibal used clever smokescreen tactics to construct his formations where his weakest soldiers were in the middle while his seasoned soldiers were on the ends, a tactic that allowed the charging Romans to smash into the middle and force Hannibal’s weakest formation to be pushed back while the ends stayed where they were. This caused Hannibal’s army to surround the Romans on 3 sides before immediately sending his calvary to plug that remaining 4th side. The Romans were now completely surrounded, with them unable to use more than 10k-ish soldiers at the outer diameter while Hannibal was able to chip at their numbers with his entire 50k army the whole time. By the battle’s end Rome’s entire 80k army, a quarter of their entire population’s military aged men, were all dead with barely a few thousand left alive as prisoners. Hannibal lost only 6k or so soldiers in the entire hours long conflict.

Yeah guess which one sounds more interesting.

Hitch pencil is so cute

Literally me

Because the textbook lessons are mostly about the driest, lamest part of history.
I only ever locked in when the conflicts and dramas come up.
Like it either “the significant of the design for this specific piece of pottery” vs. “the Roman empire.”

Anything in school vs. anything as a hobby