Front Loaded History

I for one never cared about history. They were always dead facts. There are a number of really easy solutions to the death of facts. And collectively a large sector of them are known as art.

This shouldn't be radical. In elementary school one nice lady teaches you all of the subjects. And guess what? There is cross-over all of the time. Look at how word problems in math have actually because a clever hiding place of teaching kids about racial diversity. Keeping subjects apart in school is so, well, clinical. Some of them just tend to go together.

So for me, if you read a novel with characters that stuff happens to and that stuff happens to be historical data, then I just start caring about it a bit more. How about showing me Guernica before teaching me about how Franco was a dick? Context can motivate interest. I know I am coming at this from my very own particular angle and it won't much help math-headed kids to learn history by throwing vibrant colors at their eyes (everyone know math-headed kids, much like dogs, see only a type of antique sepia tone that dulls all shades of life). But all I am saying is put the subjects back together and you might get a harmony you didn't even know was there.