History Memes

I had good teachers and textbooks too. Honestly, the real problem my schooling had was the mixture of poor coordination (since each grade in school had minimal contact with prior or subsequent grades) and (partly related) the necessity of covering an extremely expansive topic entirely (in terms of breadth) in one school year.

Regardless of interest or lack thereof, there's no room for spending more than a week on any given subject, and they had to hit every major figure and event in that time so that high school graduates could be reasonably expected to know that Aristotle is not Belgian and the main lesson of Buddhism is not 'every man for himself'.