As others have mentioned, this resonates well. But for me, not only biology. Looking back, I wish my history teacher had done something similar; taken me by the shoulders and shook me until I really understood what we were learning. Instead, major events in our history ended up being "memorize yet another date" rather than us understanding the impact these events had on us or our parents/grandparents.
I love History but so much of teaching it in school boils down to just periodization. There are such interesting patterns at play, over millennia, mixing geography, psychology, technology, economy, you name it. Whatever humans do. It's fascinating how much a systems understanding of History can teach about the world around us. But yeah sadly in school it often boils down to lists of names, dates and periods.
