History class 'round the world!!!!

POSTED BY: SaintAndeol
UPDATED: Thursday, April 20, 2006 22:16
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DESKTOPHIPPIE

Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:08 PM

Yep, all schools have to teach Irish as a language. It's one of the few subjects schools need to teach in order to be recognised as schools in Ireland.

Desktop Hippie: at one with the 'verse

TRISTAN

Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:23 PM

Shiny! Thank you for the info.
I had the honor and privilege to visit your beautiful country back in '98. I have always been in love with Ireland (I am about 1/32nd Irish from both sides of my family, but it only takes one drop of Irish blood to make an Irishman!), and was enthralled by hearing the language spoken on a regular basis. I have even tried to learn it myself, with a very limited success.

Ireland...*sigh*...to be there again...

Holding until you get back , Captain.

PINGJING

Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
It wasn't until I got the hell out of there that I started to realize just how interesting history could be. As with most things, I learned more on my own than was ever covered (or even acknowledged) in school ("lost" prehistory hinted at by shared myths [the Flood, a lost civilization of pyramid-builders, a marginalized globe-spanning mystery cult, out-of-place artifacts], Victorian materialist bias, historical context of the Egyptian Dynasties, the founding of Rome, the conquests of the British Isles, cultural cross-pollinization, comparison with "non-western" history [the far and middle Easts, the Americas], repurcussions of geo-social upheavals manifesting as political/religious doctrine).

Is it strange that that made me heart go all a-flutter? I love history, I just happened to study the illustrated version.

I'm impressed that someone else mentioned studying Mesopotamians and Babylonians. I honestly didn't even know who they were until I took a survey art history course.

Julia

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One legion of Browncoats.

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SASSALICIOUS

Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:16 PM

I miss Ireland too!

I can't remember much of elementary or middle school, but in high school it was all lumped into "social studies" so in 9th grade it was World History, 10th grade was U.S. history, 11th was civics/economics, and 12th was a blank slate. I opted to take sociology. This was WI.

Now that I'm in college, there are all sorts of minutely specific options. I've taken Southeast Asian History before 1800, Southeast Asian History after 1800, currently taking Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia, and next semester I'm taking The Vietnam Wars.

I really like history, even if I'm not studying it.

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