if history repeats itself, y have we got to memorize it?

Question

plz don't give mean comments...

Answer 1

its coz u might be sitting in exams, where history is a subject, and u have to mug up dates and facts and all that stuff so as to get at least the passing marks...am i not rite?

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Answer 2

It's important to know our place in the world. The people and events of the past have come together to make us what we are today. In our case, that is why we should learn about Western Civilization or "Euro-centric" history. I don't care for the way we are taught history in high school mainly because it gets boiled down to a laundry list of names, dates, and places. We never get to learn about the personalities and quirks of the people on the lists so it makes history seem boring when it really is more interesting than most fiction.

Answer 3

So that history will not repeat itself. The full quote is something like "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it." Which through word of mouth has degenerated to "History repeats itself." Knowing history allows one to not repeat mistakes that were made in the past.

Answer 4

Because the best way to learn about the future is to study the past. History does not "automatically" repeat itself. Rather, it plays out the same way when people who study the mistakes of the past don't learn anything from them.

Answer 5

Because there is pattern that we can come to understand as we study the past, we find that all the people that were there before us were once children at some stage in their life, so by studying how children developed in the days gone by we might be able to know something about how children are likely to grow in the future even though circumstances and times might not be the same. It is out of this understanding that we try to study the past so that we can come to have an understanding of what is most likely to happen under what kinds of circumstance.

Answer 6

Are you thinking of George Santayana? He said that "those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it", meaning that if we do not recognise the warning signs for, say, a war or a genocide, we will not be able to prevent these catastrophes.
The problem is that history doesn't repeat itself predictably.

Answer 7

If we dont memorise history we cant tell when it repeats itself. So that certain situation can be approached better next time, we learn from history and past events make great stories.

Answer 8

Because if you read about it and learn from it, history will not repeat itself. It's only if you don't learn that it will repeat (so the saying goes)

Answer 9

Memorizing is not practical since the lesson that you may need to make a decision in the present may have happened before your time. So it behooves all who are to undertake positions of power to become first students of history and present-day local politics for events or areas of concern. In other words do research.....................

Answer 10

if ur frm india den its only in india dat u have 2 byheart history History is d past nd v can learn a lot frm history its a way 2 noe our culture nd traditions .u noe history repeats itself so by knowing our past v can do some thing 2 avoid those mistakes nd develop nd dwell into more things of d past .so wat i mean is u have 2 memorize it but wen u finish ur high school go through history nd try 2 understand nd njoy it