Why are all history teachers so BASED?

why are all history teachers so BASED?

for the most part that was the case, however, I once had one very loony bint who caused all sorts of trouble for the students, myself included, she was a terribly wicked socialist/ communist

Most history teachers that I had were just teaching exactly what they'd been told to teach and had no interest in history at all. It was just the easiest thing to teach.

I had a professor who also gave speeches and q&a's in the guise of particular figures from history as something of an art-form of his

>gave speeches and q&a's in the guise of particular figures from history

That's what happens when schools double their gym coaches as teachers.

It's surprising to see how many people I've met in my History department, at least in Texas, that had gym coaches as high school history teachers. I remember I asked some students at the beginning of the semester and about 80% had a gym coach as a history teacher once.

>mfw it seems like people are caring less and less about history

what?

he did! he was a pretty cool guy, he looked just like colonel mustard

It comes with the subject. It is generally accepted at university level that the way we build historical knowledge, as well as teach it is always biased. This is not necesarilly bad if you accept your own biases. (Sorry English is not my first language)

No way.

My literature and humanities teachers were more based.

Maybe college is different, but I never took a history course in college.

All of my history teachers were exclusively teachers of history by profession, they just didn't give a shit and did it for the secure job.

They aren't, they're glorified STEMspergs.

no i believe you im saying a history teacher organizing his curriculum around him dressing up and pretending to be historical figures is worldclass funposting

those bits were outside of his regular classes, he would hold those events in the auditorium on certain days, say the date of the figures birth and so forth, also had some that were open to the public

ah i see thanks for clarifying

I only figured out my high school history teachers were based years afterwards, after being more well read in history.

you're right, in highschool, my history teacher was the most based teacher in the school, everyone liked him

What is your first language, then?

One of mine would regularly come in hungover with candy in his pockets he had stolen from the principal's office, which he would throw out to us for right answers. We also read through tests before we took them and talked about why the answers were right, which was way more engaging than actually taking them.

He gave me a hug for working so hard on my research paper, which was on the siege of Malta in WWII.

I miss that guy.

>He gave me a hug for working so hard on my research paper, which was on the siege of Malta in WWII.
This sounds so gay

Well, everybody else kind of blew off the paper as a joke. I put some serious work into that shit mostly just because I wanted to.

So he gave you a hug for actually doing the work? He sounds like a spineless pushover who shouldn't be teaching.

>We also read through tests before we took them and talked about why the answers were right, which was way more engaging than actually taking them.
That's pretty cool.

Studying to be a history and religion teacher right now (not sure how common religion is as a school subject in other countries)

Any tips on how to become a based teacher?

Had a 75 year old professor in private school that was substitute for our main teacher, he was funny and energetic despite his age and made everything from 1800-1914 easy to understand and remember.

He arranged his last class on a saturday and no one showed up.

In my personal experience, history and art history teachers have always been the best, too.