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If you like reading, is it worthless for the authors who will write the books that you will read to have studied history, language and literature?

Or in other words, do you use/consume stuff that are the product of what you can't remember from school? And if so, does that make [edit] the knowledge behind them less useless?



No. I know my native language pretty fine. I never liked literature they reach in schools. I don't remember anything from the history course in school, it was boring. I mean, they just can't make it interesting. Because it's not their (textbook authors) priority. So it tends to bore to death.

Everything I know about history is either from books I read by myself or from wikipedia/internet.


But would Wikipedia be worth reading if it wasn't for those who did find history classes interesting and wrote/fact checked Wikipedia articles?


Well, why not confine history classes to those people?

Because, I mean, you don't have learn programing to use facebook. And we still have those people who wrote it.




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