Toby Caswell: The importance of learning history is so that "We" as the people dont make the same mistakes as people did in the past, and also to emulate successful models. This can be applied to single individuals as well as entire nations.History also helps us understand people and societies.George Santayana - "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Roland Stampley: It really helps us understand who we are. If you are explaining who YOU are to someone, you usually tell them your history. If we want to understand who we are as a society or country we have to understand our history. History also makes us think critically and question people's biases. Plus history is really fun (I am a dork though).
Torrie Weissenbach: For one it teaches us who we are and where we come from. I don't mean as individuals but rather as nations, states, cultures, etc. It would be too easy for a kid to think that the country they grew up in has been arou! nd forever in the form they've always know it in. But history teaches that kid how their country came into being and everything it went through to become the nation they know in the present.For another it teaches us how our ancestors lived and what events were like while they were alive, how those events may have affected their lives....Show more
Horace Escue: learn from mistakes, know our cultures and backgrounds, forgot what else :S
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