Sunday, August 2, 2020

High School Rebellion

Except for the opportunity to wrestle, I despised high school. While cleaning today, I discovered the following ode against John Dewey:
© Matthew Mehdi Rafat (2020)

Bonus: not until 40 years old did I realize American history was impossible to teach without first understanding European history, especially conflicts between German Protestants and the Catholic Church, as well as Catholic Spain against anti-Catholic France. However, at the early age of 17, I intuitively realized my high school history teacher was wasting my time and wrote him a letter.
Ironically, after four trips around the world, I now consider history one of my strongest subjects. As they say, "Man plans, the universe laughs."

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