persian

You will be studying thousands of years of history.  Learning how to organize the information is essential.  The acronym PERSIAN (Politics, Economics, Religion, Social, Intellect, Arts and Nature), used in Advance Placement World History, utilizes the Social Sciences which provides the framework for comparing and analyzing multiple cultures.  You will be able to observe between people groups what is the same, similar, different and absolutely unique.  Patterns will emerge.  One pattern that emerges, is that the few at the top subjugate the masses for their interest based on the "Rule of Law".  This holds true for absolute rulers, democracies and all the way down to parents.  This begs a very important question, "Do the few at the top, have your best interest at heart and is it measurable?"

All societies are based on the "Rule of Law".  People want and demand order in their lives.  The Egyptians divided the world into to schools of thought.  "Maat" which was order and "Isfet" which was chaos.  The larger the nation is, the more government will be needed.  Laws, regulations and codes are implmented through a variety of agencies so the day-to-day comings and goings of any population are smooth and cohesive.

From the culture that used shells as a form of currency to the 21st Century digital currency, humans have interacted with each other by exchanging goods, services and information for something of equal value and exchangeable convenience.  All of us are part of the economy of any nation which then finally trickles down to our personal finances, whether great or meager.  Having a working knowledge of the economic framework will give a person a healthier perspective of how the financial game is played and who is benefitting from the "rules". 

For thousands of years children learned what was needed to survive and thrive from their parents and communities.  Communities over time established more formal settings for children to study.  As societies focused on more specialized skills, children were expected to spend more of their time in classrooms.  In just the last half century, cognitive science has come to learn more about the diversity of learning and how it can occur in many different settings.