School history classes still lean on memorizing dates and famous battles, but I think the most valuable lessons come from examining economic causes and everyday people's experiences. When I studied the Industrial Revolution, the textbook boiled it down to inventions, yet the real story is about child labor, urbanization, and how wages lagged for decades. Shouldn't we spend more class time on the messy social consequences rather than just the winners' timeline? That tension between coverage and depth feels like the core debate in how we teach history.