Education: it's all about history

The Theory
I stumbled across a realization the other day: every educational discipline is in some sense, history. The different subjects we study are simply gradually increasing orders of magnitude in their observation of our history. Each subject can fit neatly inside the next like Russian dolls. Maybe you've already come across this idea, but I am currently excited about it, so I am going to expostulate on it for a bit.

A metaphor: consider education a microscope, and the history of the universe a slide. Observing that slide on the lowest magnification might be the discipline of physics, taking into account how the whole is put together, how it behaves and interacts. Click up to the next magnification, and you have chemistry, a slightly more detailed look at how elements interact on the molecular level. The next magnification yields biology, another order of complexity greater than chemistry. As you keep looking closer and closer eventually you pass anthropology, sociology, eventually arriving at literature.

So, here is my personal ranking of educational disciplines in terms of complexity (sorry if some of my explanations do not suit your views on what the discipline concerns itself with).

The Hierarchy, from microscopic to macroscopic
1. Literature
Literature concerns itself with the exposition of feeling and thought. It focuses on what people believed and felt during a very small span time. A literary period often explains the feelings of a particular group of persons at a particular point in time, often less than a decade. It describes the tensions and outlooks of that moment, providing a very refined, microscopic exploration of a microfraction of human history.

2. History
History concerns itself with the recorded details of human activity. It is usually limited to the last 3,000-5,000 years, and chronicles how different societies have arisen, evolved, and fallen.

3. Sociology
Sociology explains how humans interact with one another. It reaches back before recorded events (History) to describe the dynamics of humanity in groups and tribes.

4. Anthropology
Anthropology spans the period of human history. It seeks to explain the rise and development of homo sapiens.

5. Biology
Biology explains the form and function of organic matter. It looks back to the beginning of life to investigate the origins and developments of organisms.

6. Geology
Geology concerns itself with the study of the Earth. This discipline examines what the planet was like even before life began.

7. Chemistry
Chemistry is a generalized study of particles. It investiagtes specific laws governing these particles, and can be applied to explaining how stars, planets, and life are created and develop.

8. Physics
Physics is a generalized science that takes an even more cosmic view than chemistry. Physics explores how mass, energy, and time behave, describing a series of laws that explain the origin on the universe and the changes it has undergone since.

9. Mathematics
Theoretical applications that exist even without a universe to apply them in (the only discipline that can cliam this). Explains the methods that physics uses.





What's been left out
There are several notable ommisions from this theory. These subjects were left out because I was not sure enough about their place in the hierarchy to confidently include them. Here they are, along with some thoughts about where they might go:
Psychology: The social sciences, with the exceptions of Sociology and Anthropolgy, are hard to place, and may overlap. Psychology, since it deals with human feelings, may be so specific that it comes even before literature, but it may also descibe the laws that govern sociology, so you could place it there as well.
Economics:Certainly fits inside of history, perhaps even literature?
Political Science: Again, difficult to say whether it would fit above or below literature. Perhaps it should be joined with economics to fit in between literature and history? Or included as part of sociology?
Philosophy: Also difficult, because it can be applied to describe very specific periods, or to explain the evolution of sociology.