#subject of history classes

[zsanett-suta]

When one of if not the most famous physicist of your country is comedic relief in the Trinity scene

[jasmineaxd]

History class aesthetic

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[ruporas]

I love love love your hs vashwood au!!!!! The boys looks so soft!!!!!

AW THANK YOU SO MUCH, it makes me happy to know that you do!! they are soft and so so awkward and silly... here is them studying together

[asmoteeth]

The recruits probably draw moustaches over Starscream and Megatron's pictures in their history books

[kindercelery]

Hi guys I like Richard III and history and stuff because it’s cool and did I mention I like Richard III? I think I forgot to mention I.. Like Richard III.. He and Charles II are on my phone wallpaper I'm the biggest fan guys

[twelfth-dykector]

CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!! CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!! I REPEAT!!!!! CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!!!

[poorlittleyaoyao]

I have hollered about this before, but what CQL does with Empathy is legit one of my favorite production choices—not just because da-ge is subjecting WWX to his horny goggles while he is trying to solve a murder, but because it’s so clear that his memory should be treated the same way you’d treat a primary source text: extremely valuable, offering insight into the author’s mindset as much as the events described, but not to be treated as indisputable objective fact. The memory versions of events are all different from the versions we see, and while sometimes this is due to receiving extra information—portions of the scene not previously shown to us—the difference is just as often due to the omission or alteration of things we did see happen. It’s fascinating!

So it is ENDLESSLY IRRITATING when people treat the Empathy versions as the “real” versions of the events. Like, bro, we saw that and it wasn’t from JGY’s perspective. Who do you think was lying to you before, the omniscient third-person narration?

[bmpmp3]

sometimes when i talk about race in media, in the back of my head im like "aaaghhhh am i just stating the obvious like im sure i just look like the annoying mixed race guy who just discovered water is wet or some shit" BUT THEN i remember that like. for most white people this stuff doesnt even cross their minds. like i forget. like this just isnt in their brains at all....

[definitelynotplanetfall]

How do other countries do history education?

I know I'm doing the cringe thing but Americans are basically not taught about israel in school, at all. If it comes up it'll likely be in the context of literature class, not history.

Do you split up history classes over multiple years? Because the thing about history class is that it's just mostly a huge number of raw facts to remember. It's not like math where if you know certain procedures you can re-derive things you've forgotten; pretty much any such proposed rule of history is likely to be bunk.

So if you take the number of years of history you have to teach times the detail level you're aiming for times the size of the region you're trying to study, you have an estimate (in vague terms, I don't think you can necessarily get an objective number but you can certainly do simple mathematical reasoning on vague variables) for Total History Facts. And then depending on the age of your students and pedagogical methods and probably other factors, you have a Maximum Facts Per Year. You can use these values to determine the level of detail that allows you to cover your desired subject matter within a school year. If this level of detail is unacceptably low, make the full history education take more years and solve for the detail level again.

And someone - teachers, standards writers, textbook writers, whoever - consistently sets the target detail level such that it's impossible for a given US history class to get past the civil war, or they realize they're going too slow and do a really slipshod tour of the events most pertinent to any understanding of the modern world after a really detail-heavy examination of the differences between the 13 colonies. World history is even worse, I don't even remember how far we got because everyone's brain was leaking out their ears by the end but we absolutely did not make it to the present day. World History was the only class where I failed the AP exam, because it's world fucking history dumbass, you can't teach all of it in a year!

And then, of course, when you get to your next history class they just start over from the beginning at a higher level of detail that also peters out around the Civil War, so you never actually learn anything about the 20th century.

So the options are

a) it's actually exactly like this everywhere. (plausible tbh. there is simply a lot of history.)

b) american students are uniquely lazy and stupid. (seems pretty unlikely, and also the failure is pretty consistent - you could argue that even if student ability is the limiting factor, if it happens this reliably it's educators' responsibility to just make the curriculum easier)

c) american educators are uniquely incompetent. (this is less of a judgement against teachers than it sounds like, it could be that they are ordered to do things in a way that sucks by higher ups and there is no mechanism to inform the decisionmakers that anything is wrong. I don't know if the education system is uniquely dysfunctional but it certainly is dysfunctional at all.)

d) some kind of fucking conspiracy or something. (This doesn't seem likely because who could possibly benefit from this particular problem that wouldn't benefit even more from schools dispensing explicit propaganda about events in the 20th century.)

This feels like a really obvious problem with a really obvious solution (more history classes, less total facts per class), everyone who has taken or taught a history class experiences this, and afaict this is not just a mistake that new history teachers make that they calibrate for after teaching for a while. This is EVERYONE'S experience of history classes in the US, it's kind of an open secret, and pretty much nobody ever fucking does anything about it or even mentions it as a thing it might be possible or desirable to do things about.

[bestcadaverinthejujutsumorgue]

we should have gotten a scene of todo bending his powerful head over a desk and tutoring yuji. their calloused hands affectionately brushing over pencils, etc. in the process accidentally catching ryomen sukuna, greatest of demons, king on the blood throne, he-who-eats-his-enemies-hearts up to date on the last fun and funky 1000 years of japanese history.

[apricusapollo]

how I'd rizz people up if I had chosen latin class instead of ancient greek

[frecht]

ok so some of my credits from study abroad transferred back weird. so i asked my advisor about it and she said go talk to the registrar. so i went to the registrar and they said yeah transfer credits are in admissions now so go there. so i went to admissions and they said the transfer credit head is out rn but you can email her. so i emailed her and she said yeah i'm reaching out to the registrar rn. ????

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I have been trying for days to find a topic for the "paper" I need to turn in for this Philosophy of History course on Friday, and I got nothing.

I so intensely dislike this subject you cannot imagine.

[spaghett-onaplate]

hey i have this food tech assessment where i need to make a hypothetical food product, and part of it is creating a survey. the only personal details it asks for is age (target market) and then your feelings about donuts and ice cream and my hypothetical product. survey isnt done yet buuut if anyone is willing to help me out pls reply, send an ask or dm. much appreciated :D

[all-too-unwell-13]

i love how i got a 100% on a history test right. and yet. i kid you not, the ONLY thing my teacher had to say about this was that i "yapped a lot in my answers, but it was good yapping so it's okay." are you joking me rn. babes if the question says to write 3-4 sentences, i'm going to write 3-4 sentences hello?????

[gaast]

Wokw up from the middle of a very elaborate and narratively consistent dream last night because my entire right arm was numb from restricted circulation.

We had just gotten into the fucking complex and were being cheered by people who we were certain would alert us as intruders! And when I got back to sleep, it didn't continue.

Anyway I love when my dreams segue into complete non-sequitors. Our poverty story of weird tokens and mass movement along constructed metal highways became, suddenly, a story of being in class, then marching around following an instructor, which then melted back into the tale of intriguing surrounding the Rich Guy Mansion Facility discovered accidentally along the misery walks.