How important do you think it is for people to know world history?

Question

For me, I think it's crucial to understand the story of our ancestors and how society and culture have developed. I think some people are turned off by history because it hasn't been presented to them in an effective manner. One of my history professors once said, "We need desperately to learn about far away places with strange-sounding names". I think that's true even for those places of yesteryear. History isn't about dates and trivia, but about mistakes and success and it's about the equivialent of people like you and I who lived long ago. More importantly, it's about understanding. So much ignorance, hatred, and fear is present in people today because they barely understand themselves.

Answer 1

Man is greedy and desperate for power. History cannot teach anything to man as long as he is by his nature selfish. Your professor is a naive idealist who knows nothing about human nature. HISTORY IS BUT REPETITION...... I would like you to study human nature and course of events together. Everybody can derive a lesson from the past. But those lessons does not change anything. Look at greedy America: First help Iraq (selling weapons, and making money out of it). Then back them to enter Quwait so that they can have a lame excuse to declare war against it. By that war they used their stocks and compensated for the expenses from all the countries. When they entered Iraq for the second time the idea was to sip oil freely which is what they are doing now... WHY? : hunger for wealth and power...

Answer 2

OK, you just said what I would have said, so it is very important for people to know what happened in the past. If we understand the mistakes, the faults, the good parts of others, we might eventually understand ourselves, we might not commit the same atrocities, we might be better than the past... But people today, they don´t want that, they don´t want to talk about a bloody history they have perhaps been a part of. They want to just brush it under some carpet, forget about it, because they know that history is part of themselves and they surely do not wish to hear that they would be capable of repeating history.

Answer 3

The more I learn about history the less I feel it is relevent to know. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy learning about it but have you ever noticed all the mistakes that were made are always repeated. No matter how much we acknowledge the past we are inevitably going to repeat it.

Answer 4

pERSONAL HISTORY = YES

World History = yes too, without the caps lock!

It is important to know where you have been to help know who you are now so you learn now how and what you want to be. In other words what you like to think about all day long is helped by knowing what you once thought and how that worked out.

Answer 5

I think it's very important to know world history for a couple reasons.
1) So we do not repeat the same mistakes.
2) So we honor alliances and pacts that were made before.

Answer 6

You are correct in your thoughts. Even if people don't remember the dates or names, at least remember what happened. There is a reason why you hear the statement 'History repeats itself', and that is primarily because people haven't learned from their history as they should have.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Actually I hated history in school, but its somewhat important to the average person, and critical to the aspiring politician. We don't want to repeat the same mistakes as our predecessors.

Answer 9

Knowing world history helped on D-Day in WW2.

Answer 10

Hitler perchance in present day history yet i don't believe of so. i ought to assert Marten Luther for Europe perchance more effective likely Jesus Christ, The Prophet Mohammad or Buddha. they have all replaced the international more effective than Hitler