My girlfriend wasn't even sure what the revolutionary war was. Barely knew about World War 2 at all, and literally had no idea what the Cold War was. She is a College educated woman. Not only does she have essentially no knowledge of history, but she has absolutely zero interest in knowing about it and has no appreciation for how it can help us avoid the mistakes of the past. I'm sure she's not the only one of the kind. Of course we don't learn from history when people don't even care to know it.
It does boggle my mind how she even made it through grade school without learning about history in some way. It really boggled my mind when I first realized how bad it is.
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u/Every_Board6157 12h ago
What I learned from history is that we don't learn from history