history should be optional in schools

Math, writing and art are taught as different subjects in schools, so that doesn't count. As for culture, history prolongs old feuds such as between India and Pakistan or other countries as the masses still remember what happened. With no history lessons, the masses would have less dissent against other countries and aid globalization. "The reason we must get involved in our history is to create our future. The stakes are greater because of the technology that we have, we can ruin mankind and we can ruin our earth if we repeat the same mistakes. History is our solution guide." You contradict yourself. We never had the technology to ruin the Earth before, how will we get solutions from history? Plus, I will bring up the point again that even without history these solutions can be easily inferred. One example would be dropping of the atomic bomb. Even without reading about the bombings that happened, wouldn't I know that bombs are bad and cause destruction? Learning it the scientific way is much easier than the historical way, for popular opinion and media can influence history but it is harder to manipulate science to your ends. "Who is responsible for political decisions? The people who go to school, it is not the poor uneducated who are illiterate, handicapped, less skillful, or discriminated against" Hey don't discriminate handicapped and different races. And anyways, after the votes, it is entirely up to the politician what does he want to do. Plus, just tell me how does history help us do better voting. Also, contrary to your belief, politicians need to instill hope in the poor people as in some countries they are in larger number, and also their desperation allows them to be persuaded far more easily than the middle class. As for your point about political candidates, anyone, rich, poor or middle class can become a political candidate if they are persuasive enough. While the media is run by the middle class, it is becoming unreliable and it works only for money. I don't get what you mean by cultural identity. For example, Britain has plundered many countries in its past history, but surely that is not what all of them still want to do, is it? "No longer will the elite be able to debase English and downgrade the intelligence of the American people, because you will be ready to stand up to them." Which elite has managed to debase English? Shakespeare was poor but he still added about a thousand new words to the English language. To add another point, despite history lessons Donald Trump still downgrades the intelligence of the American population. My main point is that history teaches obvious lessons that we already know, and therefore history is outliving its use and must be optional. Even without learning history, I can make war strategies, world decisions and make law. Also, history lessons get outdated and don't apply to our world. For example, the execution of those against the king and heretics was required to increase the hold of the king on the kingdom, but that rule can't be applied to our world. It can't be used as a bad example either, because they weren't able to do anything against them. Lastly, most people don't give history much importance and even if someone knows history, they may repeat it as they haven't experienced it. If a world leader learns history he may easily forget all about it after school. After all, ever heard someone in the Parliament say "since that happened in 1593, we must not allow it to happen it in 2016." or "Since the scheme in 1765 worked, it should work now as well" No, no one says that and they probably never will.