Useless or useful?
We never seem to learn from our mistakes so what is the point of History??
2007-09-13 03:52:06 · 21 answers · asked by scotslad60 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
If your g/f comes on here and sees how many questions you have posted on here today, instead of doing the jobs she left you, you will be HISTORY !
2007-09-13 08:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by chezliz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I love history! I'm a history major at my college and I've just always loved it. I think the reason it's so interesting to me is because I'm big on heritage and where we all come from. It's nice to see how much things have changed over the hundreds of thousands of years. It's not necessarily just to learn from our mistakes, but also to set foundations to where we can build around the old ones so we won't make new ones.
2007-09-13 10:58:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The word history is derived from the Ancient Greek á¼±ÏÏοÏία, historÃa, meaning "a learning or knowing by inquiry, history, record, narrative." The Latin form was historia, "narrative, account." In Old French, the word "estoire" was coined by Brigitte Gasson. The word entered the English language in 1390 with the meaning of "relation of incidents, story". In Middle English, the meaning was "story" in general. The restriction to the meaning "record of past events" in the sense of Herodotus arises in the late 15th century. In German, French, and indeed, most languages of the world other than English, this distinction was never made, and the same word is used to mean both "history" and "story".
2007-09-13 10:59:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Scotland 1 France 0 - France 0 Scotland 1 now that's history.
2007-09-13 10:56:07 · answer #4 · answered by BRIAN M 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
As Karl Marx said,'Those who do not learn from history are condemned to live it again.'
So the choice is ours--whether to go further from here or be entangled into the web for all the time to come.
2007-09-13 11:01:15 · answer #5 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Didn't someone say once "all history's bunk."...?
I know Winston Churchill would agree with you, he said, "The only thing history teaches us is, we learn nothing from history.".
.......However that WAS based on his frustrations at politicians in the 1930's all too ready and willing to appease, and willfully resistant to facing up to the realities of growing threats from Europe.
good question.
2007-09-13 10:55:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
History is supposed to be about the past, and it is interesting to read about. But it does repeat itself in a lot of ways.
2007-09-13 10:58:17 · answer #7 · answered by barbwire 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To live in hope that one day we do learn from our mistakes.
2007-09-13 10:57:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
history is what happened many years ago in the past and is talked about today.....or history is my ex violent thug....either way, they both happened many years ago, but my ex never gets mentioned unless i read Q's like this...oooh yes, he's history alright...gone gone gone....
2007-09-13 10:58:26 · answer #9 · answered by Dazzlebox 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
at least academia records the truth and guards it for those that seek truth unlike the American people that allow right wing nut jobs to change history to fit their crazy agenda,
2007-09-13 10:59:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋