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Maken10/02/20241 replyview on HN

History is terribly taught because it's often about the how and not the why.


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teqsun10/02/2024

Even worse is the overemphasis on when (in terms of exactness).

Knowing the rough order of events (as per the flow of a story) is important, as is the relative timespan, but a lot of history schooling puts too much emphasis on knowing the exact dates of certain events, which I think really subtracts the experience for many.