@OP
It depends on you and your teacher 50/50.
If the teacher can present the topic in an interesting fashion while you give enough of a damn about the class to memorize important details and make the connections necessary to form a coherent view of how the world came into being the thing it is today, then yes, it's awesome.
I'd ditch everything pre-19th century not directly related to major events in recent history, though. I couldn't give less of a crap about Qin Shi Huangdi and what he did (I'm Hungarian, China is pretty darn far away.).
For you Americans: History taught around the world is more than 10 wars, a genocide and an economic depression, so it can and will get overwhelming sometimes when the teacher expects you to learn the name of every Polish resistance fighter pre-Soviet occupation. (Just an arbitrary example, but reflects how it's done sometimes.)


Yes, History is censored. But it's not a subject where your or others' opinion matters. You have the material presented to you, describing what happened and what were the repercussions. That material may or may not be accurate, it may be told subjectively and could contain outright false information. But strip it all down and you'll understand what's went down and what is going on.

History is a powerful propaganda tool. Just an example: it puts a heavy emphasis on how fascists and communists put people in camps and worked them to death/straight up murdered them. It puts less emphasis on how the Germans and Russians took the idea of concentration camps from the British. Guess who won WW2 AND the Cold War.
Anyways, just question what you hear. There's truth behind the lies.