This is true for most topics. The way that math is taught, the way that history is taught- all separate the vast and deeply interconnected miracles of human ing

This is true for most topics. The way that math is taught, the way that history is taught- all separate the vast and deeply interconnected miracles of human ingenuity and achievement and discretize them into asynchronous packets of information to be tested on. How could you learn about Arabic numerals and Roman numerals without learning about how they slowly spread across Europe and revolutionized business? One without the other is boring. Every human invention is connected. Some suggested things to look up, caveat that you may already know about a few of these- - John Taylor Gatto and his myriad essays about the state and education (especially "The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher" as a Gatto primer) - Buckminster Fuller's "Everything I Know" lecture series (transcripts are up somewhere) - Anything Richard Feynman wrote