An excellent point. I know a lot of names and dates, but that's because they interest me, not because they are necessary. I think it's more important to teach a student to love a subject, whereas forced recitation sometimes teaches just the opposite.
As a good friend of mine once said, "When I was almost out of college I suddenly found myself wanting to go beat the crap out of my high school history teacher, just for making it so boring!"
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