I didn't answer you, by the way, because I honestly can't remember what history I learned when and how. Between compulsory school, my own reading back then and later on half a year of full-time history at University I know far more of it than most people here, at least…

What might be interesting, though, is that I actually talked about history education with my Scottish GF not long ago, since I found she knew surprisingly little of it. As far as we could figure out, I got about four times as many hours of history back in compulsory school as she did. This kind of surprised me.