Why History Courses should be Abolished

History will only continue to increase. With the degree of technology today, we can easily preserve all the history that mankind knew before, and will continue to record history for all the years to come. Therefore, recorded and studied history will always increase in volume.

Studying history in school, therefore, will either dwindle in quality (to fit all the new history with the old into the same duration of time) until eventually students learn absolutely nothing about every era of history from 4000 B.C. to 34,000 A.D.. Or, if the importance of learning history in the same degree of detail continues, schools will have to lengthen their history studying until school is nothing more than a history course. Students will spend more and more time on history studying because there is more and more history altogether. Finally, every human being will be spending his or her entire life just to remember history in high school level details. There will gradually be no technological or artistic advances because everyone is busy in school learning about, for example, the names of all 3,104 United States presidents. All buildings will be converted to libraries, museums, and gigantic hard drives to store all the documents and artifacts we have collected in the milleniums. Eventually, human development will cease and civilization will perish.

The time of this unfortunate downfall of humanity can be easily calculated. If the concentration of required historical detail is high school level, then we can assume that every student spends at least twelve years to acquire this knowledge. And that is from 4,000 B.C. to 2,000 A.D., or about six thousand years of history. By 31,000 A.D., everyone will finish their high school history course at the age of 70. This can be postponed if we study more history every day. I will assume that our level of schooling requires an hour of history every day (And after seeing some of those AP US History students, believe me that this is quite an optimistic assumption). If we still need eight hours of sleep per night, this leaves a meager 16 hours of productive hours every day. We shall condense the number of days required to learn all this history by sixteen times, and humanity's paralysis will occur at a much later date of 556,000 A.D..

Therefore, any leader with foresight will understand that history courses in schools should be abolished to prevent such a pathetic and miserable demise to mankind.