History and its Teaching

One of the most boring subjects in school (right up there with Geography) was History. Well except the chapters that dealt with Shivaji beating his rival kings with a variety of tactics.
Even the ones that dealt with India's freedom struggle were generally Ho Hum , the dates meant to be memorized and forgotten the next year.
It is only now that i realize that this was a mistake and History can actually be quite interesting. But it is only so when the dry history of chronological events is combined with the view points and emotions of the person recounting that History.
And that is what i think makes the difference. A history of India is not as interesting as reading the discovery of India. India's freedom struggle is not as interesting as My experiments with Truth.
And to conclude with a quote
The lesson that History teaches us is that History often teaches the wrong lessons