I am sorry to say that when I was much younger, and even later in college, I had no appreciation for most of my history classes and Western Civ.  Reading those textbooks was deadly boring and even when my kids were in high school and also complained of boredom, I wondered if the mode of teaching was not doing justice to the subject matter.   I now sometimes feel, that unless one was born with a passion for history, that teaching it to young … [Read more...]