My daughters too voice the same sentiment.
"History is boring", is the common refrain. I think the fault lies in the way it is taught. There is a greater stress on memorizing the dates, rather than see events / stories of ancient world, from a modern viewpoint . Once the stories , their fall-outs and their relevance , is understood, it will definitely seem less boring.
Quintessentially, all history is story -telling, with a difference; these are true stories.
Whatever happened yesterday, last week ,last month,last year,last decade,last century, is history now.
It may be colored with the teller's biases, but we are all humans , aren't we? We all bring our own baggage and biases with us.
We are flawed, and therein lies our beauty.
"History is boring", is the common refrain. I think the fault lies in the way it is taught. There is a greater stress on memorizing the dates, rather than see events / stories of ancient world, from a modern viewpoint . Once the stories , their fall-outs and their relevance , is understood, it will definitely seem less boring.
Quintessentially, all history is story -telling, with a difference; these are true stories.
Whatever happened yesterday, last week ,last month,last year,last decade,last century, is history now.
It may be colored with the teller's biases, but we are all humans , aren't we? We all bring our own baggage and biases with us.
We are flawed, and therein lies our beauty.
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