Change in Learning:History

I think one of the important factors in studying history is the ability to relate history to my own life and experiences. That is also the reason we study history; it is a way to keep bad things from re-occurring as well as to keep the good things in society. I discovered the importance of connections in my 7th grade European history class. Suddenly because of the ability to connect things to my own life, I became very interested, and remain so today. I found that 'I was able to retain information much better, and I still remember it to this day.
When I began high school this year, I was put into a US History: 9 Honors class. Immediately I knew this class would be different from previous US History classes. The first day the teacher introduced herself, and said that she was not only a teacher, but also had a major in psychology. She told us that history and psychology are connected in many ways, and that in the class she would be teaching history with a background from the psychology standpoint. I was scared of this new idea, but I was also excited. She was just the type of teacher that would be able to make connections from culture today to things in the past. I believe that this class has changed my thinking even more in other classes because I connect everything to something I relate to in my own life. This makes the information more retainable.