If you have morality doesn’t it kind of suck to hear about century after century of slavery, violence, and exploitation?
Honestly I feel like if any type of history “slaps” then you’re probably viewing it through a very narrow lens that omits an immense amount of human suffering. History is depressing as fuck. It can definitely serve a purpose to focus on the cool events and forget about the rest at times, but it’s also misleading if that’s all you do.
I guess it makes slightly more sense if they meant to say learning about history.
But still, I’m not sure making claims like this is going to reverse the eternal reality of young people not giving a shit about history and only starting to recognize its importance after they have made the same mistakes.
It’s like “Math is fun kids!”, “history slaps!”. While young people just roll their eyes. Just because the slang is slightly updated doesn’t actually make the message any more compelling.
I’m not sure why I’m being so negative here, I guess I just feel like the tweet is kinda dumb and virtue signalling and that’s setting the tone for my interaction with it.
I honestly didn’t like history until my mid or late twenties, except for 9th year. I think it was mainly because every other teacher some about it in monotones, if at all and basically just assigned in-class silent reading and a boatload of homework that didn’t even cover important things. 9th year instructor some with inflection, asked questions that prompted deep thought and critical thinking.
Robert Smalls was a really awesome dude. The historical circumstances that determined the course of his life are profoundly tragic.
If you view his life from a cinematic perspective, yeah it slaps. From a historical perspective, he lived and died and the societal conditions which he struggled against remained essentially unchanged. He’s a historical footnote.
If you have morality doesn’t it kind of suck to hear about century after century of slavery, violence, and exploitation?
Honestly I feel like if any type of history “slaps” then you’re probably viewing it through a very narrow lens that omits an immense amount of human suffering. History is depressing as fuck. It can definitely serve a purpose to focus on the cool events and forget about the rest at times, but it’s also misleading if that’s all you do.
I think they mean learning about history slaps. History is both interesting and extremely important even when it’s depressing.
Encouraging learning about history is something we should continue to do, even if it means using collloquialisms.
I guess it makes slightly more sense if they meant to say learning about history.
But still, I’m not sure making claims like this is going to reverse the eternal reality of young people not giving a shit about history and only starting to recognize its importance after they have made the same mistakes.
It’s like “Math is fun kids!”, “history slaps!”. While young people just roll their eyes. Just because the slang is slightly updated doesn’t actually make the message any more compelling.
I’m not sure why I’m being so negative here, I guess I just feel like the tweet is kinda dumb and virtue signalling and that’s setting the tone for my interaction with it.
I honestly didn’t like history until my mid or late twenties, except for 9th year. I think it was mainly because every other teacher some about it in monotones, if at all and basically just assigned in-class silent reading and a boatload of homework that didn’t even cover important things. 9th year instructor some with inflection, asked questions that prompted deep thought and critical thinking.
That’s fair, history teachers can certainly get lazy. If you present the information in an engaging way it’s definitely not boring.
Nah. Robert Smalls slaps.
Robert Smalls was a really awesome dude. The historical circumstances that determined the course of his life are profoundly tragic.
If you view his life from a cinematic perspective, yeah it slaps. From a historical perspective, he lived and died and the societal conditions which he struggled against remained essentially unchanged. He’s a historical footnote.
The History of Slap Fighting slaps