What is your personal opinion for the need to teach and study history?
We study history in order to benefit from the experiences of the past and reflect on the present or planning for the future and avoid mistakes, because the age of man is short and can not try everything or experience in his life, but benefit from the experiences of others and their interaction with the variables of their time, which may also exist in our time.
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We study history in order to benefit from the experiences of the past and reflect on the present or planning for the future and avoid mistakes, because the age of man is short and can not try everything or experience in his life, but benefit from the experiences of others and their interaction with the variables of their time, which may also exist in our time.
best regards .
Because the history is a mirror of nations,reflect and explore the past,review and evaluate the present, and predict the future.
Dear Amir,
The human society as a social, economic and political structure is one of the dynamical systems in nature which evolves or devolves in time, except that we think, reason and change courses the way people at the frontier determines. The chronicle of our evolution, our existence in time where we have been, what we were doing, right or wrong or absurd in some cases, and what we have done to be where we are now is very important to know and record for many reasons.
The recordings and study of these temporal stages of our existence, which is only peculiar to humans, is what our history is and studying it is essential to know the wrongs and rights and absurdities we have done so that we make corrections in our thinking, reasoning in order to set a better, well thoughtful and fair future. History is a vector in time which has arrow heads on both ends, the end to the past and the end to the future. History is a mirror which shows us how symmetric or asymmetric our evolution in time is.
Regards,
The historical perspective of disciplines are very important to be taught. They equip learners with the foundational information on the developments of the various constructs of the discipline to understand them better. History always offers us with detailed information and better understanding of issues.
Dear Dejenie A. Lakew- Thank you for your input and thoughtful comments. Amir
The study of history puts you in front of the understanding of the conditions of the previous nations between renaissance and fall, and between civilization and backwardness. You pass through your study of history in a journey through time, which is explored by the news of your predecessors and their situations.
We study history by knowing and learning from our roots and ancestors.
Regards!
Studying history we enrich ourselves by past experiences and culture, so we can construct models for our future.
When I was a child I read history for fun, not enlightenment. Powerful narratives of heroes leading enthusiastic troops into battle. I read about astonishing civilisations in Asia and the Americas. I later read of important individuals creating art-philosophy-science. I read much more as I reached adulthood. Then one day I realised that what I read might not actually be true and that appearance and reality were muddy definitions of experience. I read more, much more, and discovered that both history and truth are the preserve of the writer, symbolic rather than actual. I studied history at university and found it was what ever your teacher said it was. There I learnt to corral my thirst for knowledge and pass exams. Then, history was a chore. I learnt in the end that history is multifaceted, but that if you keep on trying you may just find one glint of truth to parcel up and present to others.
I know many more branches of History:
1. History of development of modern Medicines.
2. History of gaining assets laid below the earth surface.
3. History of Evolution and it's pattern,
and many others .....
Dear Dejenie A. Lakew - Thank you for your thoughtful response. Amir
On the medical level .. The case history is very important as it helps a lot in the correct diagnosis of the disease, especially as many diseases give similar symptoms
Dear Prof. Muthana A.K. Al-Zobaei Al-Zobae. Many thanks for sharing your perspective.
Does the human really learn from his or her past? At the individual, group, or population level??
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
We learn a lot from history. History gives direction to the present.
To know the past, understand how the past led to the present and be able to predict how the future will be shaped by the past and the present. Possibly also to modify the future
The motivation behind study history is twofold: One is to take the lesson and wisdom from repeated human behaviors and other is to expect the future.
The motivation behind study history is twofold: One is to take the lesson and wisdom from repeated human behaviors and other is to expect the future.
Children and young people must also be educated and trained, and they must study history, to promoting international understanding, and learning from the experiences of others.
REGARDS
We study history to know the past, experience of which can lead us in present and in future.
To learn from the experience of others, to avoid their mistakes, to be proud of what we are and to able to plan a better future for us.
Vilemar Magalhães
Dear Vilemar Magalhaes and Shibabrata Pattanayak - Thank you both for your comments. Amir
I would say that history repeats itself to give us chance to rectify our actions...so there lies its importance.
Infact we are witnessing the happenings of today because of what went on sometime ago. Therefore the study of historical antecedents in the life of mankind is relevant
Studying the history give us a good lessons and experience in our life .
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So that we can go ahead - only if we know what happened before. Otherwise we will repeat the same mistakes.
What is your personal opinion for the need to teach and study history?
History offer many benefits as per the following to enrich our lives:
It is only in knowing the past that we can chart the path for the present and the future - Dickson Adom
Because may believe that history repeats itself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_recurrence
As human being it is appropriate to study and know our history. Studying history is important because it allows us to understand our past, which in turn allows to understand our present and the predict the future. If we want to know how and why our world is the way it is today, we have to consider historical antecedents. People often say that “history repeats itself,” but if we study the successes and failures of the past, we may, ideally, be able to learn from our mistakes and avoid repeating them in the future. Studying history can provide us with insight into our cultures of origin as well as cultures with which we might be less familiar, thereby increasing cross-cultural awareness and understanding.
History is a continuous, typically chronological, record of important or public events or of a particular trend or institution.
it provides a preview knowledge to all kinds of students.
In research it gives a background to a particular study.
It is usually considered as distant past but literally, it could mean yesterday.
Dear Sir
The chronological history provides a basis to understand background knowledge.
Historical background help to predict the future.
Regards,
Jahangir
The study of history puts you in front of the understanding of the conditions of the previous nations between Renaissance and Fall and between civilization and backwardness. You pass through your study of history in a journey through time, which is explored by the news of your predecessors and their situations.
As human being it is appropriate to study and know our history. Studying history is important because it allows us to understand our past, which in turn allows to understand our present and the predict the future. If we want to know how and why our world is the way it is today, we have to consider historical antecedents. People often say that “history repeats itself,” but if we study the successes and failures of the past, we may, ideally, be able to learn from our mistakes and avoid repeating them in the future. Studying history can provide us with insight into our cultures of origin as well as cultures with which we might be less familiar, thereby increasing cross-cultural awareness and understanding.
History helps us know more about the things preceded before we know what was actually happening in and around us.It helps us to be informed,to be able to take better decisions with the years ahead and also to know where we come from and what transpired through series of generations.
To understand behaviors and increase experience and predict the future of the tendency of peoples
Michel Foucault's term archaeology behind present institutions, ideas and ideologies provides a succinct and necessary reason for history. We mustn't accept anything but look into its roots, how it is constructed. Why do we think the way we do? To do that requires immense honesty.
Isn't life history? A moment ago is history. We reflect on historical moments of the immediate, distant as well as ancient past. Whether we want to learn from them, that is another question altogether.
As an illustration from the ancient past, from our Holy Quran, we learn to understand when to leave people be (Zulqarnain in Surah Al-Kahfi), we learn how to be patient with sibling rivalry (Prophet Yusuf AS), we learn how to prepare a nation for difficult times (Prophet Yusuf AS), we learn how not to abandon our responsibility and people (Prophet Yunus AS), we learn how to be a good wife despite having a Pharaoh for a husband (Sayyidatina Aasiyah RA), we learn about what knowledge to impart to our children (Surah Luqman), and many more.
I believe, whether as an individual for him/herself or for others, they who seek peace will want to ponder and learn from history.
Historically, my own interest in history was triggered after reading The King Solomon's Mine as a child. Just another story creating history.
Misna
History means everything.without looking back and reviewing what happened in past we can not advance and flourish suitably .we must learn from history of everything we need to.specially about war and peace and religion.regards.
People like studying history because history is tied to human intelligence. It is tied to curiosity, which is a again a very humanly emotion. One of the key differences between humans and other animals is our big brains and because of that we pass on our learning to our peers and next generations. That way we build upon knowledge rather than starting afresh. Writing was a major invention that accelerated human development. History is tied to invention of writing. Events before writing are labeled as Proto-history or Pre-history where we were using symbols or communicating verbally or memorizing.
All humans love history because that gives us evolutionary advantage. We have learnt from others experience what to do and what not to do when we were hunters and gatherers.
Modern version of History gets bad reputation because modern elite have made it into a tedious subject. Thick volumes filled with event after event and dates after dates. Making it boring and tedious probably secures their careers, hence another survival strategy of humans. While humans have an advantage over other animals, they try to leverage that advantage among themselves as well and dominate other humans. Before 1490, books were hand written and extremely unaffordable and only few elites had access to them. Johann Gutenberg fixed that by inventing the printing machine. In modern times, wealthy people could afford to display Encyclopedia Britannica and other thick history books on their shelves. Wikipedia, Google books, and internet fixed that.
Modern education system is geared towards creating 'employable' graduates who become cogs in a wheel called economy. It systematically kills curiosity, hence making us attribute lower value to subjects like history.
But if explained the right way and if all humans were free from constraints imposed by other humans on them, history would be loved by each and every one of us and not just some of us!
But real history is or can be frustrating for those who invest in the past and find a revealed truth hard to bear. The past can be nothing but myth, made t o seem like truth.
From history my country,,,
George Santayana said it best: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
I can cite plenty of cases of recent blunders that could have been avoided with a little knowledge of history. The most obvious case is the American invasion of Iraq, which I opposed from the outset. Indeed, when the first intimations that Mr. Bush wanted to invade Iraq appeared, I refused to believe that he could be that stupid.
The invasion was doomed from the outset because the Bush Administration knew nothing of the history of non-Western countries. Western countries have a strong central government that enjoys the respect of its citizens; if you take out the government, you control the country. But most countries don't operate that way; they are hierarchies of power-groups. At the top is the dictator, who retains power by dishing out goodies to the bosses of different groups. Each of those bosses, in turn dishes out goodies to the sub-bosses underneath him, and so on down to the base of the pyramid.
If you take out the top of the pyramid, it just breaks up into lots of little pyramids. With lots of brutality, you can eventually hammer the smaller pyramids into line, but it's a long, slow, and bloody task. This kind of thing has been demonstrated over and over and over throughout history. China, India, the Aztec Empire, the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the European conquest of Africa -- the story has been repeated endlessly throughout human history.
The Bush Administration believed that they could knock off Mr. Hussein and install a nice, neat democratic government, and everybody would live happily ever after. That was a completely absurd expectation. In 5,000 years of Mesopotamian history, there has NEVER been a democratic government. Sure enough, Iraq remains unstable as all the little pyramids duke it out for power. It will not stabilize as a democracy; it will either break up into little warring fiefdoms or it will fall prey to a ruthless dictator just like Mr. Hussein.
We wasted $2 trillion, 5,000 American lives, and 100,000 Iraqi lives, and we accomplished nothing, and all because the Bush Administration didn't know any history
Dear Mohammed H. Musleh - I agree with your conclusions regarding the invasion of Iraq. However, I disagree with you that Iraq never had a democracy. Iraq is the birthplace of democracy starting with the Sumerian who had instiutions similar to the US house and senate! Amir
When humanity loses its memory, the probability that history repeats itself is very high.
To learn from the mistakes of our ancestors, and to make use of the good actions.
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