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For Jake’s World History class, his first assignment is to generate 10 important dates from world history and 10 important dates from his personal history*. The world history bit is easy, but personal history? We’d be lost without this blog.
First class, the teacher lectured to them about the importance of history. What a waste of a day. I know, I know — not all kids are created equally, and for some, justification like this is necessary. But honestly, I’m not impressed. Add to that the recycled chestnut, “Those who don’t remember history are condemned yatta yatta yatta**,” and I’m REALLY not impressed. I’m starting to recall how uninspired most of my high school classes were.
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* Because, dontcha know, DATES are so incredibly important to history.
** Consequence of a 1970s Hebrew School education — we heard this one ad nauseam.
