A predictive history teacher could pick a contrived subset of history to show particular patterns that support a message to indoctrinate.
If anything, predictive history should make this more difficult to do than with current teaching. Also, whatever you were having them predict, what they would mostly learn is how damn inaccurate they are on an absolute scale, independently of what truth was revealed. The sense of uncertainty is something they would feel strongly at each question they answered.
I while ago I had a similar idea, but instead of simulated prediction of the past, I thought about combining more classical history teaching with predicting the future. The rationale being: if the point of learning the past is understanding the present, then just grade on the goal by predicting the near future. The history professor would participate together with the students, and he can not cheat because he doesn’t know the future. If he was actually better at prediction, the students would look up to him in a way which can not be imposed by authority. Also, having a concrete goal in mind while learning something helps the process.
If anything, predictive history should make this more difficult to do than with current teaching. Also, whatever you were having them predict, what they would mostly learn is how damn inaccurate they are on an absolute scale, independently of what truth was revealed. The sense of uncertainty is something they would feel strongly at each question they answered.
I while ago I had a similar idea, but instead of simulated prediction of the past, I thought about combining more classical history teaching with predicting the future. The rationale being: if the point of learning the past is understanding the present, then just grade on the goal by predicting the near future. The history professor would participate together with the students, and he can not cheat because he doesn’t know the future. If he was actually better at prediction, the students would look up to him in a way which can not be imposed by authority. Also, having a concrete goal in mind while learning something helps the process.