Chapter 6: Motivataion and Boredom

From the list about why students want to be in class, one statement jumped out at me. "To understand history so history isn't repeated" (102). I had never thought of this before, and now it seems like such an important reason to try to engage students.

I had never thought about the fact that students need to know why Hitler's reign was so bad, and how NOT to let it happen again. I now understand that it is a reason that makes them WANT to learn about history. I think that it is a statement that seems so obvious to me now, but if I had never been taught about it, I could very well have supported a dictator who wanted the same types of things.