Archive for November, 2009

Why Most People Think Memorizing Historical Facts is Useless (and Why It Isn’t)

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Why do most people think that memorizing historical facts is useless? Because the way history is taught nowadays, it generally is. Here’s a great example… Who hasn’t been asked this question in what passes for a history or “social studies” class over the past fifty years? What is worse, the question is now asked in [...]

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