Schools should offer more world history classes because the lack of knowledge leaves people at a disadvantage, it’s important to know how other countries shaped theirs, and students will regain interest if they’re taught something new. By the time students reach high school, they’ll have spent the past nine years learning about only American history and chances are that they know next to nothing about the rest of the world. It may not seem like it, but learning just a little information about other countries can drastically open a person’s eyes. “Our view of history shapes the way we view the present, and therefore it dictates what answers we offer for existing problems. Let me offer a few examples to indicate how this might be true.” (Crabtree)

Who was Benjamin Disraeli? Charlemagne? Li Si? Unless students have already learned about these people from somewhere else, they most likely have never even heard their names before because schools don’t teach about them, despite their importance in history. Disraeli was a well-known English prime minister, Charlemagne was a French king and one of the first people to build schools so that others could earn an education, and Li Si was a Chinese advisor who organized many laws that we still use to this day. Ironically, Li Si …show more content…
Over time, they hear the same names every year, study the same events, and maybe dabble into a little extra information, but that’s it. If they studied Ancient Egyptian history, for example, or just something different, perhaps students would regain their interest and pay more attention. Another benefit to this is that they would know more about the world and its past. “History did, in fact, happen, and without it we would be largely ignorant of the workings of the world and of the human creature.”