...apparently, nobody really learns all that much history.
"Which brings up an interesting question: If history is such a good teacher, why do we teach so little of it to our young?
Take, for example, history’s place in America’s higher education. Many institutions that are training tomorrow’s leaders don’t seem to think that history is just what they need. At Princeton, for example, those who receive A.B. degrees need take only one course in history — any history. Bachelor of Science students at Princeton can skip history altogether. So can those at Yale. At least Harvard requires its undergraduates to take a pre-modern history course. But that is rare. It’s increasingly difficult today to find a college or university that requires students to study Antiquity, or the Middle Ages, or the Renaissance, or anything at all that occurred before the students’ own short lives."
One of the reasons I love UA&P...we don't take history lightly.
Amen. I'm one history geek. :)) And sir! I still have to talk to you about my observation.
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Sure. When do you want to talk?
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