Why do we need to know who hit a ball with a bat and ran around? why do we need to know who stared in a popular movie (i coldnt even tell you the actors in my favorite movies of today because i find it rather pointless)? why do we care who took a picture of something?
I beleive that knowing what happened is important as well as WHY IT HAPPENED, but why do we need to know all this pointless stuff? what good can it really do?
2007-12-12 15:12:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
If your going to say we need to know history so that it does not repeat itself please tell me how any of the examples i gave can help keep us from repeating mistakes of the past.
I have already said that i beleive it is important to know what happened, why it happened but some of the stuff we lear is just pointless. For example, when we were larning about the 20's we had to know a bunch of sports stars of the time and a lot of their stats, actors and their role in various movies, musician and artisits and the names of many of their works.
The things they teach us in school are not the important or useful things. They focus to much on the details and make kids HATE history when it could be a useful tool.
2007-12-13 00:04:01 · update #1
Like driving a car, it's better if you know where you are going, and...how can you know where you are going if you don't know where you've been?
However, the examples you cite are sorely meager and trivial if that is what you are getting in your history class. Sorry.
2007-12-12 16:22:45 · answer #1 · answered by apup 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your school teaches that as history instead of as gossip on the playground, you are in serious need of a new school.
I can think of several instances of who took a picture being important because Civil War and WWII photographers and others since influenced how we felt about the wars by the scenes they photographed (dead and dying or heroic fighters) and nature photographers influenced national parks and ecology laws.
2007-12-12 23:19:22 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am surprised by what you say. Really, did you waste your time with those silly things, and you were told that you were learning History ?
You know, I understand now why one of my best students ( I am a professor ) asked me once whether Marco Polo had discovered America. I just could not believe my ears
How sad !
2007-12-13 11:59:45 · answer #3 · answered by Der Schreckliche 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so you do not repeat the bad stuff. we do all the time, the study of history helps us avoid the mistakes of the past if we learn it.
2007-12-12 23:18:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
History is taught so that history will not repeat itself
2007-12-12 23:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by _ 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because the details are what make history truly interesting
2007-12-12 23:26:40 · answer #6 · answered by atticusproductions 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋