Has Learning History Become Less Socially Important, and Are We Condemned to Repeat It?

Question

"What experience and history teach is this.....that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
-G. W. F. Hegel

Answer 1

Only the people who experience the history learn from it. We can study history but it does no good. You can read all the books in the world about soccer. But you never become a good player until you play the game. The wisdom of our forefathers is not inherited. We must always gain our own.

Answer 2

I think so... people seem to think that they can do anything they want and the past has no impact... they don't realize that the rules were set down for a reason...