This is a great article about the impact a personal visit to a World War Two battlefield had one kid:

The News-Sentinel, Visit to Normandy's WWII battlefields changes teenager's life, Aug. 04, 2003

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I got interested in WW2 the same way Alex did, when I visited Normandy in 1993, since then I have collected and researched the battles. Is he on this forum? I really like to see more young people taking the hobby up [img]smile.gif[/img]

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That's a good question Phil. I don't know if he is here, but I think he would realy enjoy this site.

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Personally, I've always had good to excellent history teachers that were pretty enthusiastic about history themselves. Also the curriculum in Germany doesn't appear to be as tight as in the US or the UK. In the last years of school the teachers always asked the class what they wanted to learn, offering a choice of various alternatives.

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Glad to see you back Andreas.

That is interesting about schools in Germany though--letting the students decide on what they feel like learning within reason?. Actually--I think it's a pretty good idea.

My brother is a Hignschool Teacher here in Texas. He teaches two courses. One on History and the other is a Computer English course. I think i'll bring that up to his attention and see what he thinks?

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I think to a degree it is the same over here, what I mean is that when you reach GCSE's there is a range topics you can cover before your exams, so for example in my school we did Indian Independance, USA 1920-1980 and Russia 1905-1924, my brother did medecine through history and the rise of the Nazis. The thing is that rather than letting students decide, the teachers decide based on what is most convenient for them to teach. Basically this means that people learn what the teacher decided to teach them a year ago rather than what they are interested in, often this will be intended to make life easy for new teachers and so will cover whatever they were learning in his/her last year of university etc.

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