Misperceptions Of History

History is an all encompassing area of study, existing in three senses: history that already exists, history that is being created, and history that will be created. The reason for this three-way split is because history is a vocalization or a recording of a passage of time. However, that is only looking at history in the non-human perception, as history to us humans has a more personal definition to us: what I, us, or another human has done, is doing, or will do. By including the human element, we give time and history a more including and interesting worldview. Including the human element is important as it not only makes the education of history more widely accessible to a larger audience. Learning, studying, and teaching history is also …show more content…
In other words, each audience group needs to have their own respective method for education. For example, should I become a teacher, I would teach the education in a fun but professional manner. A common misperception of a history class in grade school is that since the class is boring, so is the information. Because of this, a large percentage of the population is missing out on the joys of learning about the past. One way to fix this miscommunication would be to remove the cause of the problem, the way the lesson is being taught. A history lesson should be engrossing, interesting, and educational. Not to denounce traditional lectures, but if a teacher had dressed up or acted like (respectfully, of course) a group we were learning about, the history lecture would have retained the student’s attention and remained in the student’s memory much longer probably than just words on a background. The difficulty in this however is the balance of being professional and educating and not just temporarily distracting students. The goal is for them to remember the information, not yourself. In another and different example, the education given by a intelligence analyst in a briefing for government officials would probably not be received well if the method above was applied. Should I become something similar to that, then I would …show more content…
Both conflicting and controversial, yet also one-sided and universal, history is a game of perspectives, opinions, and thoughts with facts used to support any of the former. However, this should not leave unstudied and abandoned, left to old books and tomes of knowledge. History is a living subject, that should be taught and passed down to future generations like traditions taught by our forefathers. In this, I would like to pursue a future in governmental history as noted before. In this role, I hope to influence the future by teaching or telling the stories of the