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Are we losing our appetite for the lessons of history? Explain...

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Wayne Brownposted 7 years ago
Are we losing our appetite for the lessons of history? Explain...
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blake4dposted 7 years ago
Not if they involve learning why we don't make more fried chicken and sloppy joes. Damn I am hungry just thinking about history.
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TinaTangoposted 7 years ago
I have an excessive hunger for the lessons of history! It amazes me about live 30, 40, 50, 100, 500 years ago! How much technology has progressed within the past 20 years is astounding!
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Truckstop Sallyposted 7 years ago
Interesting you should ask. Just today in the newspaper there were 2 comics involving the subject of studying history. In Family Circus little Billy asks his Dad, "When you were little did they have history books." In Argyle Sweater a Poetry book is vaccuming and says, "I'm sorry Sweetie, I didn't hear. Could you say it again, but speak more clearly?" and her History book fellow says, "For cryin' out loud, Elizabeth -- why do I always have to repeat myself."

I don't think we do a very good job in schools making history class interesting and relevant. While Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic is important -- history is too . . . or we will repeat ourselves and make the same mistakes again and again.
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ConstantineNguyenposted 7 years ago
It depends on different people. There are many who don't like history, but there are others who love history including me. Today will be history tomorrow....the failures we get today, we should know how to fix and change them tomorrow. So history is so important to us, It has the lessons of the right and the wrong that we can copy the right, and avoid the wrong.
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n.padyposted 7 years ago
yes, children these days are loosing their appetite for history, as they are totally covered with modern gadgets. also, if our teachers had something interesting while teaching us about events which happened, it would be nice.
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lorddraven2000posted 7 years ago
I run the Wheelwright Historic Society and I can say here that people do seem to have lost their drive to want to know about the history of this town. They are content watching it fall apart.
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fundguruposted 7 years ago
It depends on the individiual. Social science shows that there is a direct link between the genes and the social background of a person that affects his or her abilities.

If a persons grew up in a social environment with no interest in history then this person more likely will also not be interested in history. In addition then comes into account the education level of the parents.

People with high education will have more likely children that will have high education, well parents with low education will more likely have children with low education.

From demographic science then it is known that people with low education and a poor social background will have more children then people with high education and a good social background.

As consequence a society will change in away that the low educated people with a poor social background will outpopulate all others.

And then it may appear that there is fewer interest for several topics within a society.

But at the same time there are still people with high education and good social background who are interested in several topics like history.

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat history.
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Alastar Packerposted 7 years ago
If history does nothing else it fires up the imagination and children should be encouraged in it; and yes it's an old quote but those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it (the tragic side of course.) I thank god had parents who guided me towards history's direction.
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