Ignoring details drives me
crazy. I read this article and thought I would share.
Some Thoughts on the 'Boring' Social
Studies
By Greg Milo
I love this article. This is exactly how I feel
in many classes. Good questions and ideas pop into my head and most times I get
the horrible feeling I would be the one boy outlier who listed the written
details of what I would like to understand better. I recognize it won't be on
the test, so I think inside I should look it up on my own. But, I need a better way to record all the
available information so I can note what I want to look up later.
Good history teaches so many interesting
lessons that trigger the leeway for us to have understanding about the
intricate details that lead to governments justifying war, or the true giving
of ingenuity for solving problems. I need to have this available insight so I
could literally not try to reinvent the wheel.
Wheels have been done to death, and the point
of studying history is to move forward smoothly. So, instead of making more
wheels we should be addressing steering. …By the way, that has been done
too. The point is the history around the event is more interesting to
understand because the toll of collective details gingerly describes a world
that we can relate to, and how people made decisions based on many things.
These are called little multifaceted elements that matter if we are really
looking to not repeat the outright mistakes and atrocities of the long ago
past.