Agreed. I'd have appreciated physics more if it had been taught with a more historical approach. When I asked the profs why, the general answer was 'takes too much time'.
(I 'spect part of it is that history is a 'humanity' ... but also that it's because they didn't get the history either, and didn't have time to learn it well enough to teach it.)
The physics department (major US university) actually hired a history of science scholar, and I heard grumbling that he should be paid for by another department.
(I 'spect part of it is that history is a 'humanity' ... but also that it's because they didn't get the history either, and didn't have time to learn it well enough to teach it.)
The physics department (major US university) actually hired a history of science scholar, and I heard grumbling that he should be paid for by another department.