History. Looking back, the primary goal of each textbook and teacher was to do their best to make sure nobody would ever voluntarily pick up a history book for

History. Looking back, the primary goal of each textbook and teacher was to do their best to make sure nobody would ever voluntarily pick up a history book for the rest of their life. Decades later I wound up reading a biography of a moderately interesting person, which led me off to history in a sideways manner. Now I'm a minor history buff. Funny, history wasn't the only subject the public school system seemed to be trying to induce Pavlovian avoidance reflexes to...