Agreed. This is why often reading a Wikipedia page is the worst way to learn something. The best way is to get a teacher to tell you the relevant history leading up to the thing, and it makes much more sense.
When I was in school, a lot of teachers did a little tidbit of history at the start of topics, but I never latched onto it and found it boring. It was only after my studies that I started to really love going back to the origin.
