What good is it taking history classes in high school?

[alaister]

Journalism, Politics, stuff like that... History is a very academic subject, so applying to a university colleague, getting a job. Having a good grade in history will certainly show you've got brains.

History gives you a better perceptive of the world, as you find out other stories and learn from them...

I must admit I personally prefer the sciences, revise all the info then get the marks.And dropped history for Biology...

[ckaihatsu]

Political (educational) diagrams, for revolutionaries

http://www.revleft.com/vb/political-educational-diagrams-t111586/index.html

[John "Eh" MacDonald]

How are those diagrams readable? Do you have a legend or something to go along with it?

[Lunatic Concept]

Lol ive decided to take politics, looking forward to being the ONLY leftist in the entire class. Again.:laugh:

[La Comédie Noire]

The only reason to take a high school history class is to troll your teacher with pro left essays.

[StalinFanboy]

We re-enacted the Haymarket trial in my high school history class.

[Jimmie Higgins]

History is my favorite subject... too bad they never actually taught us any real history in any of my high school history classes.

We watched the musical "1776" to learn about US independence in High School. Apparently, the Continental Congress was done very music-"LEE" (if you get that joke, bonus points). Then we watched "Grease" in my honors History class Junior Year when we were studying the 1950s... I was like, wasn't this made in the 1970s?

History classes in college were much better and a lot of what I can remember is still useful now that I'm a radical because I can re-contextualize a lot of it to a class-based perspective. I wish I had been a radical at the time because it would have helped me argue against some of the BS explanations I was given and I could have actually used research papers to read and help my political understanding of the past rather than just doing research papers simply because they are assigned.

(For anyone here in college, are you able to overlap your personal political education with your required academic education a lot of the time?)

[Burn A Flag]

Speaking of research papers, i'm doing my persuasive research paper on socialism. Also, High school history is like giving you the biased bourgeois version of history. Not Trying to say everything they say is false, but definitely biased, and it leaves out a lot of their faults.

All last year I used to troll my English Teacher with pro left essays too btw.

[4 Leaf Clover]

Well , every country teaches it's own history. We will teach ours , since everything before classless society is pre-history :)

[Rafiq]

The only reason to take a high school history class is to troll your teacher with pro left essays.

I ALWAYS do this

[ckaihatsu]

How are those diagrams readable? Do you have a legend or something to go along with it?


I hear ya -- you can find full-size versions of the graphics at an image hosting site that I just moved them to. The listing of links can be found at this RevLeft thread:

Political (educational) diagrams, for revolutionaries

tinyurl.com/ckaihatsu-diagrams-revleft

http://www.revleft.com/vb/political-educational-diagrams-t111586/index.html


For any / each of the graphics you go to, you may want to scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the 'full size' link -- once you've clicked on that and the full-sized image has loaded it may be larger than the size of your screen. You would need to scroll around to look at the parts you're interested in, as for reading areas with small text.

Feel free to ask here or at the other thread, or message me, with any specific questions about any of them....