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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't teach in other countries so it does not matter. But I do teach logic.

So it does not matter what they teach in their history class because it is useless once they become a doctor.

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If the history stuff a future-doctor person has learned is useless once the person becomes a doctor, why bother with history at all, either in class or through unschooling?

If you're trying to persuade people that unschooling is a good thing, I don't think that saying history is useless is a good strategy.[/quote]

This is OP. I haven't participated in this discussion about history, but I'll give my two cents. I think the PP meant that knowing some facts about US history is not relevant to knowing how to treat an ulcer, for example. But more broadly, what specific historical knowledge are you claiming is necessary, and necessary to do what exactly? Ask 10 regularly schooled people what history they REMEMBER (which is far more important than what they learned in school, remembered long enough to pass a test, and then forgot), and I bet you'd get 10 very different answers. I went to regular schools and took history classes, like probably everyone else on here. But the history that is relevant to my life and that I remember (other than in the form of totally useless, sketchy facts and figures, like that the Magna Carta was signed in 1215), I learned voluntarily from having conversations with knowledgeable individuals and from books that I chose to read, mostly as an adult. [/quote]

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