“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[Nintex]

Not being taught The Odyssey or ancient Greek history in school is no excuse for not knowing about it.

Unfortunately school curricula were designed on the assumption that people would be curious about the world and learn about things on their own time.

Besides the point that it is taught in British schools. It’s on the English curriculum for 11-13 year olds.

If you want to know about History in Europe you really need to study it in your spare time. I think they even wanted to drop it from the general set of subjects. The mostly left wing education system doesn't see history as something to look at with pride or something to learn from in general. They see it as something that should be forgotten and erased from memory or something that offends (colonialism, nationalism, racism, fascism etc.). Even things that you would assume they would want to give attention to like Joanne D'arc are ignored for some reason or another. It's also why everyone is so utterly shocked when an empire like Russia tries to spread its wings because those are things from the past, it can't happen in the present. 

Our new government actually mandates that the Holocaust will be taught in schools again because they dropped it.

There is also a somewhat renewed interest thanks to events like the reconstruction of the Notre Dame, shows like Chernobyl and movies like Oppenheimer but it remains to be seen if it can have a significant impact. On TV whenever the subject comes up, for example in relation to the Ukraine/Russia conflict the hosts usually shut it down quickly: "Oh sorry, we're not here for a history seminar" . And some of those scholars, journalists and novelists had been warning for years to deaf ears that we could ignore history but not escape it.

And finally it creates a very easy opening for Russian agents and other bad people to insert false narratives about history so those that do start looking mostly find bullshit.