I loved it. Most people tolerate and live with it. Only imbeciles hate it.

Learn history or repeat it. That lesson has seldom been clearer in the last three decades.

A must.

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it."

Why did Lee make the same mistakes as Hanibal?

Why do the deluded declare themselves "Napolean"?

Why do resources run out before entitlement fulfills the perfect society?

Read it or reap it.

Our coverage of world history was abysmal. We did cover some things, but most of which related to Britain in some way. The only truly WORLD history was in primary school when we did prehistory (at about age 5). It still wasn't great then to be honest - we had a very strict teacher who didn't seem to actually like teaching. One day she said that triceratops were the only horned dinosaur with nothing else like it - I told her she was wrong and she shown me up in front of the class instead. The following day I brought in a book that covered other horned dinosaurs such as the monoclonius and proved her wrong to the amusement of the class. Probably not deserved, but I was 5 - I could be pretty vengeful back then.

EDIT: We did cover a couple of other non-British pieces of World history though such as the Aztecs and the Egyptians but neither one had more than a week spent on them unfortunately. Our coverage of history primarily starts with the romans, the vikings and the saxons and then works up from 1066 to the present day (spending years on WW1 and WW2)

My interest is in ancient history and pre-history so it's a sham really, I've had to learn what I want to learn from books and documentaries instead of our own schooling system

It's alright, but I don't understand: Why do we have to learn the history of all these countries if we probably will never need to know anything about Zambia, and will probably never have anything to do with it?

I've done the standard western civ courses and I've even chewed on more focused pieces here and there, plus I made it a point to school myself in things of military relevance when I did the jarhead thing to the point where I read a couple of suggestions for Majors and Colonels off of the Commandant's reading list. I've done very well in the courses I've taken and I might take some more.

History is very interesting. I did alright while I was in school, but that stopped after 9th grade. I'm mostly self taught.

yeah!

I took an American Studies Class in college that related world history to how America was discovered and how it evolved into what we have now...pretty interesting

Love it when it is taught by a confident and enthusiastic teacher.

still read my history. love to learn new stuff.

teno

ummmm noo....totally boring!

It's my favorite subject..

KICKASS!

schubie.
all that needs to be said.

Are we just going to rate classes in this quiz? I'm getting bored.

LOL, with Mr. Frost...sweet guy. Totally gay (really) but sweet

The best, but it appears to have been abolished in the public school system. Some of the recent posters in this site don't know whether they are afoot or on horseback as far as history is concerned.

Wasn't very good at it but enjoyed it. Never did understand all the Chinese Dynasties crap though...

Ask my wife's former students. To date, nary a one among them since she began teaching this in 1971 does not enthusiastically remind her of what it has meant for them to have important events put into perspective.

I don't think when I was a kid I found history all that interesting, but now I see things differently.

My low rating's not for history as a subject but the way it's taught in school, usually as state propaganda i.e. bigging up one's own country as a paragon of all that is good and virtuous and making out other countries to be backwards, nefarious, evil. etc. Fr'instance when I was taught history at school (in the UK) we were told how the Empire brought technolgical advancement, education  and good old christianity to the rest of the world. No mention of its role in the slave trade, persecution of other faiths and dodgy goings on in India etc. I guess similar bullsh*t is spouted off in every school around the globe.

A fascinating subject, especially with the right instructor. I must admit, pre-high school, I didn't have much interest in history, but thanks to two wonderful high school history teachers, my interest blossomed. I am currently taking a Vietnam War class my university--very illuminating!

A very enjoyable and educational class at the same time. With a good teacher, going to class is almost like going to a story hour every day.

I always thought it important to know and understand History - whether it be from your own country or in relation to world events. This was always one of my favorite classes going through school.

Always fun. Especially when your teacher doesn't teach it out of a book.

History was always one of my favorites. Learning how one little incident changed everything was fasinating!

The problem for teachers is trying to pick and choose what to cover. I almost think that teachers should choose a couple of countries from each continent for in depth coverage rather than just a little bit of everything. Until recently "world" history meant European history. I'm glad the curriculum has been expanded.

I've learned alot. World history was magnetic for me. I always wanted to know about other cultures and their history and this class really opened me up to the world. I enjoyed every second of it.

Here's my quandary. My oldest daughter majored in History for 2 semesters. She was always an avid reader with a particularly intense interest in (and knowledge of) WWII and the Civl War. After enduring 5 courses, she gave it up, to my inconsolable dismay. We sat down to discuss her decision, one summer day. What it boiled down to was how sick she was of professors who glamorize the utopian benefits of communism and demonize everything about America's role in nearly every diplomatic conflict, with the single and sole exception of FDR's entire handling of WWII, after Pearl Harbor. She was particularly tired of being the professors' conservative advocate, and the sarcastic mocking that that position carried, not just from the professors, but by her fellow students who, in her opinion, knew much less about their argument than she did, but who were good at parroting the conventional, left-wing wisdom, so proliferate in the US Press and media culture. The "impartial" professor seemed too often to enjoy the verbal mugging that occurred. She said, "Dad, we're paying 30 grand a year to get the same indoctrination you can get every day for fifty cents in the newspaper. " In evaluating the monetary comparison, I was forced to agree with her. A business major was more appropriate to her goals.

I get a lot of flack from people who criticize me because I received my degree in history (they think it's useless). However, history is important, like abichara said, because in order to understand the present, we need to understand the past and learn from it or otherwise we would be doomed to repeat it (yeah, I know that's been said a million times).

Probably not taught well enough. Different Cultures and Civilizations need to be examined. However, beware of Teachers with leftist agendas who will subconsciously try and instill a Love of Marxism and Socialism in their students.

History is important because it is an ongoing process; it's a constant work-in-progress, which makes it an dynamic and interesting subject. In order to understand the present we have to understand the past. We have to know about what happened before our time, otherwise we won't be able to put the present into context.

I rank this below US History, because you have to drudge through the caveman days and some other low points. Also, you don't get as much details as with US History, since it's over a much broader area. Still very interesting.

Did well in the subject (all A's) but didn't really like it. I did like learning about how civilizations were born and how closely affected everything was to each other, but got somewhat dull. I liked US History much more.

Took this last year as a high school student. I personally find the history of how early civilizations were shaped and how modern civilization developed quite fascinating. I generally prefer US History, but my experience in studying world history was quite informative.

I love world history! So much more fascinating than foccusing on one country! This class always kept my attention! I didn't mind studying for tests because everything was just so fascinating!

How could anybody with at least half a brain not like history? It is like reading a great story book, but with real people, dates, battles, and other events. History forms the basis upon which out world today works.

History in general is a great subject. I think i am taking like 3 courses of it this year

World History was a little harder for me than U.S. History, probably because there was a lot more stuff to remember in a short period of time. My World History teacher in high school also wasn't a very good one, which is probably why I didn't do so well.

for some reason, this year i really got interested in it. it was the only class i looked forward to this year. sadly i won't be taking it next year but this class did hold my attention.

My brother teaches this, and he's a real history buff, especially World War II and Hitler's Third Reich. Now I find a lot of it fascinating myself, but not to the same extent. In high school, it was a subject that I dealt with, but I didn't exactly flourish at it. It really depended on the teacher. If you had someone who didn't know how to teach it, it could be deadly dull, which was usually the case with my teachers.

I used to think being knowledgeable about world history was only important for government leaders. However, now I am more attuned to the affects of ignorance in society and very much welcome all students gaining a broader view of our past as well as a more complete understanding of other countries.

Everybody should know a little something about World History. I think it gives us a better insight on things in the present. It teaches us to appreciate other cultures, religions and ways of thinking. History was always my top subject, I consider myself an avid student of it.

It can be the most interesting class in the world one day and the most boring and useless the next.

History is my favorite subject. Hitsory is a teacher in itself. People can learn from the disasters, as well from the successes in history. History is entertaining. So much has happened over such a long time. I find it very interesting to learn and know what has happened in other places around the world, and the affect that they had. History teachers are smart.