Is It Important For Knowledge?

Why does society consider education such an important quest? Should there be a purpose for education or should education simply be an intrinsic pursuit (Marples, 2010), where individuals just want to learn and become more knowledgeable. Education should be accessible for all young people to obtain skills required to become meaningful members of society, whether it is simply to acquire knowledge or to acquire more purposeful skills for a meaningful profession. How that occurs is determined by stakeholders commissioned to realise the aims for education devised by governments, who ultimately decide what is best for society. Education can be applied to any number of programmes that teach and encourage learning (Hand, 2010). The argument

Why is history important? It is both necessary and helpful to the study the context of prior history because it reveals who we are in relation to other people, cultures, and countries. History influences the way people can process information viewed from other races, and cultures, and even speak, “The old saying is, if we don’t know where we came from then we don’t know where we are going.” By studying history we can take what others’ have done and build on it.

History matters a lot for each human life. First of all, it helps us to understand

People can learn a lot of things from the past. As time go though the past gives us a lesson to learn. History is one of the important element that taught and inspire people to do great thing compare to the past. History taught us beliefs, values, and different traditions of a culture, even architecture had an influence by the past project. From the very beginning of architecture, people started to build a little tent using branch and stone. After that people start to build column to support the building. One of the examples that has shown the architecture had learn from the past is the acropolis of Athens and the white house at Washington D.C.

In the essay Haunted America, Patricia Nelson Limerick ponders whether or not there is any benefit for society to have historical knowledge. Limerick contradicts herself numerous times in her opinion on the usefulness of history. She implies that there are many lessons that can be learned from history. However, Limerick is disappointed in the human race because it fails to learn from the mistakes of others. She therefore wonders, "What do we gain besides a revival and restoration of the misery?" (Limerick, 473). Based on Limerick's examination of people and history, one can conclude that objectively history is useless, however, theoretically, people would be much better off if they learned from the lessons that the past presents.

History class in itself has a specific purpose which seems to be frequently forgotten. We learn about violent and horrible events in our past, as well as life- changing and positively impacting ones. From the negative events, we learn what went wrong and how to prevent similar tragedies from happening. From the positive, we gather knowledge and comprehension of the basis of our modern society. We are a self- repairing race, analyzing every flaw and figuring out what caused it. It's an ancient practice, trial and error is human nature.

Having knowledge is only beneficial when application is a

“I don’t understand why I have to take this class. All that old history stuff has no relevance to my life, and it is a waste of time to fool with it. My life today is more important than the lives of all those dead and boring people.” This remark is said more frequently than we realize. History is a combination of events that created our present and future today. The past it what simply gives our present it’s value. Another way to look at history is it can be compared to our ancestry line. Without our ancestors we wouldn’t have the make-up of genes that we do today. For example, the Columbian exchange is one of the events in history that has really impacted our world. Not only did one change come from the event but a variety including food, plants, animals, goods and knowledge. History also exposes knowledge to us. It is the resource that allows us to better our lives and expand our knowledge. Believe it or not, our life we peruse everyday consist of history. Including languages, we inherited, religions that weren’t just created on the spot, technologies that have been upgraded in the past years, and the clothing we decided to put on our backs everyday that has evolved from different materials to different fittings. The world has evolved in many ways in the past and it continues to evolve.

There is a purpose behind taking history classes. The goal behind learning about history is to learn from it, to not make the same mistakes as the ones who came before, to become as advanced as possible while surpassing ancestors follies. The Chinese government tries to cast aside the knowledge of the Tiananmen Square massacre. If Tiananmen is forgotten… isn’t it more likely to happen again? Slave revolts in the United States of America were caused partially by denying Africans’ human rights and education, the more education these enslaved individuals had access to the more revolts were caused as a response to their enslavement and unfair treatment.

In their essays; Why Study History and A Shield Against Fate and It’s Consequences, Diane Ravitch and T.H. Watkins, respectively, each make a case for why history history should be taught, and their arguments can be summarized by the above quote, an excerpt from Watkin’s piece. Where Ravitch focuses on the how it can improve intelligence, Watkins believes the significance of learning history lies in it’s ability to increase hope. They both, however, implicitly state that knowing about the past will make us better prepared to deal with and shape the future.

History is important to the everyday life because of the ways it has changed how many things are now whether it happened a thousand years ago, or even a week ago. If nothing were to done to improve the problems, or if nothing was changed due to the major successes in history the world would be going nowhere. It is important to remember things that happen in history, especially the bad to prevent them from happening again.

Today, there are many things that are important in life. We should know how to solve equations, speak at least one world language, such as English or Spanish, and know at least some history, like what happened during the Great Depression and what caused it. Many people just memorize the facts to pass the tests and then shove the facts into the back of their memory to eventually be forgotten. At the time this idea seems good because we won’t use this information in the future, right? Wrong, knowing what happened in the past is actually just as important as what is going on today and what will happen in the future.

A recent, and dramatic turn of event that has taken place in the United States has been the shoot-out at the nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Nearly one day after the massacre, Donald Trump had once again forced the issue of Muslims immigrating to the United States. The shooter of that night had pleaded allegiance toward ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). However, the gunman was not an outsider who immigrated to the country, he was instead a local citizen, born in New York. Donald Trump has also called out against President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for not addressing the issue as “radical Islamic terrorism.” Clinton shot back calling his behavior “undignified” for a running candidate for president. Sam Frizell of Time added that “she (Clinton) lambasted Trump for doubling down on his call to ban Muslims from immigrating to the United States.” Clinton strongly views the issue as a dangerous move against Muslims because it sends a negative message around the world. Her perspective of the argument is also strongly concerned about the nation’s safety. Clinton’s words toward Trump dictating "he’s strengthening the terrorists’ argument,” shows that her conscience believes that banning Muslims from entering the United States would spark an outrage in the Muslim countries, moreover, its injustice toward the situation gives the United States a detrimental

What if no one in the world ever learned about the past? How important is understanding history in our lives? I never had an answer to these questions until eleventh grade when I went on a school trip to Washington D.C with the purpose of visiting the National Museum of African American history and culture. The trip was selective and I was chosen to attend as I was not only a student who consistently got high grades on my assignments, but because I also had a great interest in going to Washington D.C in order to see the historic monuments. I felt thrilled to be one of the of the few students to have been chosen out of the many students in my grade as it meant that the work I had put into class was one of the very

"To ‘learn’ history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.” – Adolf Hitler