What does history teach you?

All through elementary and high school, whenever I was taught about history, I always had to remember who did what and when. Do they still teach that? Is history and social studies all about remembering names of people, events, and the dates they occurred?

When you learn about Abraham Lincoln, are you taught about what he did? Does it make any difference in your life to learn about only the end results of historical facts? Not one stinking bit!

Do you know all of the books Abraham Lincoln read when he was growing up? Do you know anything about the education and upbringing of our country's founding fathers?

It is the framework of successful minds that must be learned, not the historical achievements of successful minds. Perhaps the reason is simply that all those people who did great things did so because they were rich enough already to have more free time on their hands than the rest of our ancestors who worked in factories.