Older students and the liberal arts

[clep3705]

As someone who is approaching 60, I have to agree with what you have said but also can add that the history books are being rewritten. I also have read things in texts that did not jive with what I had learned and/or lived through, made that mental note you refer to and gone back to research the specific occurrent. I often found that the facts being taught were NOT correct or presented in a slanted view point and, rarely, when the information available at the time perhaps did not tell the whole story and those facts can now be seen in a broader view - but, overall, that was extremely rare. Perhaps once or twice at the most.

The U.S. History 2 CLEP was easy for me because I remembered so much of it. I lived through it.

When I'm really old, I'm going to either teach or take U.S. History. Pity the youngster teaching history who has me as a student. "Excuse me, that's not exactly right, I remember when it happened." Have fun with what you know!