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'.<p>(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.)<p>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.