Teaching And Learning History
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Reginald Said:
Do you think teaching history in school is wrong?!?We Answered:
No, not at all! (You're a liberal, aren't you?) We have to look at pur past mistakes to mold a better future for our society....if at all possible anymore...Deanna Said:
It isn't about attacking political parties as much as it is about teaching truth, and asking others to teach t?We Answered:
Unfortunately when ideology and history meet, ideology almost always wins. The sad fact is that truth is always the first casualty in any political exchange. There is your truth, my truth and somewhere in the middle lies the actual truth.Georgia Said:
Has Learning History Become Less Socially Important, and Are We Condemned to Repeat It?We Answered:
No. Learning history is exactly as unimportant to the general population as Hegel said it is/was.Let's say 10% of your population is the intellectual elite: the people who can "think" with their "brains." And then there is the power elite: another 10% who try their best to constantly get wealth and power. What you're left with is 80% cannon fodder.
In a democracy (whether representative, republic, parliamentary or otherwise) 80% makes a majority.
Learning history for that 80% is too much work. They're stupid. Are we condemned to repeat it? Mark Twain said it better: "History doesn't repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes."
Shawn Said:
Give 5 reasons why do we teach and learn History of Science???We Answered:
1. Science is the universal language of knowledge - knowing how we've gained this knowledge will help future scientists (the children now) how the process works and as an example for future scientists2. Our future survival mandates that we (the people) of this planet that have set forth policies that are using our natural resources at excessive rates - figure out how to solve these impending problems for future generations
after 1 and 2 - there is no need for the other three
and if you need three more - get them from the other respondents - good luck
Patricia Said:
Isnt it odd that different schools teach different history? I thought history is history?We Answered:
History is basically told with the twist of whoever is teaching it. When the Russians teach about Communism and such, they don't tell about the horrible things that happend under it.Jennifer Said:
Give five reasons why do we teach and learn History of Science???We Answered:
Well first of all, usually people don't teach history of science. I teach high school science and the majority of my students do not know the following:1. More than 3 famous scientists
2. More than 1 famous scientists correctly spelled name
3. Any famous scientific experiments
4. Any recent scientific experiments or theories
5. Any regional information (where science experiments were conducted)
And any historical information they know, they don't know that it is historic.
Reasons to teach history
1. It's more interesting to go through a process of science with characters than to just learn results of experiments
2. The history often replays itself, for instance the current debacles of evolution are very similar to historical interactions between science and religion
3. A lot of scientists still play a prominent role in science, the periodic table has 20 some elements named after famous scientists and regions where elements were discovered
4. The history of science follows from simple experiments to more complex ones, thus by following history, you can go from simple science to more complex as people become more educated
5. Historical examples are often great teaching tools, for example when Millikan measure the mass/charge ratio of an electron, his results were wrong, and the next 5 experiments all got similar wrong answers that progressively approached the correct answer demonstrating the need for questioning of results as well as multiple successful experiments and repeatability of results.