History Should Not Be Taught In Schools

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After reading the essay by David McCullough, one could have a much better understanding of what it really means to learn about history. He wrote about how most people do not know everything they should already know or at least have an idea about of our history. Many people are not taught about the little details of certain situations that make our history more interesting and true. If the generations and people of today are not taught right, then the younger generations will know even less. This could possibly continue going on until all of what 's taught about history is just a guess or completely wrong.

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Southerners would “disregard” the truth they knew too well and Northerners would find it “embarrassing” and “indigestible”" (Rothman 1). Current American society faces the same fears that occurred in older times. From not wanting to expose our children to things that may shame us or that may cause an uproar of thoughts. Fear in the end limits our ability to learn from the past, but classes are meant to be a safe environment where students are able to voice their thoughts. Even when it's a topic that haunts the mind of Americas, students should not be limited in the ability to learn from past mistakes that a nation has made.

In History 1111, it teaches a broad introduction to the development of the United States. From the casualty losses to major expansion, the United States has developed World History with each major aspect of important, historical events. In this course I have learned not only important events, but how to analyze them and how they affect our world today. History is a great topic because as we acknowledge past events, it influences the future. Events really mold the culture and society that everyone lives in.

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1. History helps us understand the world: History enables us to understand how the world worked then and how it works now. History provides us with the framework of knowledge that we need to build our entire lives. It takes us closer to happenings and events in the past we can know about and learn how things have changed ever since, and who were the figures and personalities that helped change the scenario.

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My last reason is that if we do not learn about the past and the mistakes humanity has made we will most likely repeat it. George Santayana a Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy, and literary once said "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.". The past holds mistakes that should not be repeated but most of the time we never look back to the past to make sure we do not repeat those mistakes because we must look back to move forward. Some may say that education is important to children's mental devolvement and so students should not miss school as much as they can. That is true but a healthy family environment is more important for mental devolvement than education.

Since America loves advancement, especially with technology and society as a whole, there is not that much of a emphasis on their history. Many kids do not like or want to

Even though they are the weakest link in the chain, they are critical because they give everyone a purpose; without them, the group feels lost and hopeless. There is no one to teach history, and no one to teach it

Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, these are only a few people mentioned in class, but what about Claudette Colvin who nine months before Rosa Parks, decided not to get off the bus and was taken to jail, or Emmett Till who was 14 and brutally beaten and killed for whistling at a white woman. These are only a few who are not mentioned in our history books or classrooms. Students are taught mathematics, Science, World and American history because it is important. Black history is also important, it teaches the contribution African Americans have made in the past and continue making in the future.

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