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    4 hours ago

    History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.

    I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can’t know what a world was like before an event if you weren’t aware of it.

    How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they’ve heard references to it. It’s yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.

    On a wide side note, I had an amazing Ancient History instructor in college. First day he told us not to bother getting the text for the class, we’re not using it. He took us on an incredible ride.