I am a great admirer of history, and I love to read history. Following my love, I opened a textbook of class 6. It was of social science and published by NCERT. I started with history. The first chapter which should be history was about geography. But still not a big deal. I found history in chapter 4 titled, “Timeline and sources of history”. Pretty good to start with the basics. Actually, it was not the case. They started a topic “The first crop” and it should have things about crop. But the topic talked about the ice age and in the very next paragraph it started with the societies. It was lacking the basic details, like when the first crop was grown, how humans started the society? and some other things. The chapter felt like the writer was in some kind of hurry to finish of the chapter and did not care to talk about the things in details.
This led me to think about books I learnt during my schooling. I downloaded the PDF and started reading it. That book felt more like a puzzle. I could not comprehend what was going on in the chapter what writer want to say and what is he talking about? Somehow, he did not feel to tell us what is history? What is the timeline? Actually nothing. After reading the both book it felt to me that I should read Upinder singh that might feel easier compared to those books.
How a 10-year-old kid is supposed to understand history from that book? No wonder why kids hate history and social science.
