Is it or do you think it should be mandatory to learn......?

Question

at least 2-3 hours a week about the history of the United Kingdom as a whole.

I think it would resolve alot of issues that the Scots, the English, the Irish and the Welsh have with each other. Or at least they could dislike each other and be well informed as to why that is.

I know when I was in school we never learned that much about our history between each country.

What do you think?

I say this because other countries learn about their country, including learning latin and the history of language! 2- 3 hours a week is nothing compared to the crap that some teachers teach!

Answer 1

If you took away the time given to meaningless RE and RE-related activities and gave it over to learning about who we are as a nation and country and how we came to be the way we are it might help to understand each other better.

Learning the history of our various nations would include the socially important bits of RE too.

In fact history can be the uniting thread in the whole educational program - everything from writing to body scanners happened at a time, in a place and with people involved. Understanding that the modern world didn't just pop out of nowhere but arose from all the things and people that went before would be a great improvement to every kid's understanding.

Now comes the hard part - making it interesting.

Answer 2

Hiya

I think 2-3 hours just about British and Irish history all through school would be a bit much, considering they also have to learn all about the World Wars. Colonialisms etc.
I think they should learn about a few parts of it in depth though rather than skimming over the whole of history. I think we should learn about things about the very complicated relationship between the countries and how it developed, especially things like why northern ireland happened and why there are no easy solutions to resolve the issues there.
I think it was a policy of the Thatcher government to remove study of the modern british history from the schools syllabus.

Answer 3

History won't teach you facts it is written precisely to take away blame from the home country. You will only get one side of the story. Therefore, I would conclude that a buncha ppl walking around with a one-sided fictional account of their nation's history would only have more reasons to dislike those from other countries and the situation would be a whole lot worse. I dont belive in sh*t written by people from war starting counties! Learn to respect people of the earth before you go claiming that you're great. Radical? or is it Real? Why isn't war Radical? don't YOU think it is? AND irrational? Yeah hella bullshht.

Answer 4

I know that the Scots certainly learn all about how badly they have been treated by the English over the last few centuries - I'd guess that the Irish do too. It certainly makes them very patriotic, which is not always a good thing in my opinion. I tend to feel that looking forward is usually more productive than looking back.

Answer 5

I assume ur from the UK, and im not but i think its important in general to learn about the history of ur land and surrounding lands.

Our students in general do not need to know how to keep from contracting AIDS on a weekly basis. It is pretty freakin hard to even get AIDS. There is less than a 1% chance if someone infected with HIV bleeds straight into an open wound onto ur body to even acquire it. Why spend so much time on something so hard to obtain?????

Answer 6

I think we should take at least 2-3 hours a week educating each other about AIDS and how to avoid being inffected. Our friends round the world are dying by the second!

Answer 7

Yes! I feel my parents and fims taught me more history than I learned at school. History at school tends to be more of the politics and econimcs than about King, Queens, battles and lifestyles.

Answer 8

It never hurt anyone to become better educated about their neighbors. It has only hurt to remain ignorant.