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The more we learn about our past, the better prepared we will be for our future. History does
repeat itself, and I'm not just talking about the short moments man has walked on earth. Think about
the big picture, whether patterns, evolution, and extinction. Like everything else in our universe
its all just one big repeating cycle. |
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A lot. We study history so that we are not doomed to repeat it. |
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I am leaning on this side, although some information does need to be cleared up. It's not that we DO
learn from or mistakes, it's that we SHOULD learn from our mistakes. If we don't learn from the
mistakes of the past it will happen again. So i would say yes we, as a collective, do learn from
history; although we usually don't take what we learn and apply it. |
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I have no idea which side to go on here but I thought you might find this info
interesting......Scientist did an experiment with rats... And put them in a maze and put cheese in a
certain place in the maze. Once the rat found the cheese he would go back there, If the cheese was
removed the rat would go back once or twice more and the stop going back to that spot. I'm not
sure how they tested the people, but they said that people just kept going back and going back and
going back............. What does that tell you about history? |
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Learning history only helps us predict the future. |
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Yes we learn how we lived so we don't make the same mistakes. |
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We learn from our mistakes |
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As we all know that is a said term that history repeats itself. It clarifies that there is always a
comeback of what you have done in your past and you can not deny that. Whatever we did in our past
has a significant role in our future. We do something good in our past we get a good result in
future, likewise we make mistakes in our past and we learn from them. It often happens that the same
situation that we faced in our past has repeated and we took the right step now but we could not do
it in the past. That is when it can be proved that we surely learn from history. Our own history
often tells us how to make the next move so that we do not make any mistake again. Thus we do learn
from history. |
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I think in many ways we do learn from history, eventually.
As a historian, I believe that we can't live in the past but we can learn a lot from past events.
For example one of the debates on this site is about Child Labour which is hotly debated these days.
We have learnt a lot about this subject because of our own past experiences and can understand how
our own perceptions of childhood have evolved in a relatively short time.
We don't always learn and act appropriately .
Human nature hasn't changed very much over time but our understanding has.
No-one who is just would want to re-introduce slavery, repression of women, bull-baiting etc and we
have learnt a lot .We are become more aware of what is happening on only in our own societies but on
a global scale. In the past the world view was much more limited.
Overall, yes , I think we do learn from history, and we often shape the future through that
knowledge. |
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I don't i sleep through it |
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If history teaches us anything it is that we didn't learn from history. |
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History doesn't always been deem to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, unless we the
world act together for the greater global justices and reformations, unless you want to defend the
status quo of perpetual wars. |
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Were only going to make the same mistakes
if we do the the same things |
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No, we never did. I do not see much improvement in the present society from the ones before.
Actually, I would say that it is worse.
Or if you are concerning the mistakes within past history...that's another story then. |
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I think the better question is "Should we learn from history?" History most defiantly repeats
itself and should be learnt from, but we don't. We can see so many parallels today. Take the Iraq
War for example; spartan76 beautifully illustrates the parallel between our current war and Vietnam.
Another one of the most devastating examples is that of WW2. At the end French revolution the
government chose not to punish the people for fear that there would later be a war of revenge.
Later after WW1 the treaty signed held Germany responsible for the war. Hitler later used this
"injustice" as his battle cry, instilling anger in the people and giving them a common enemy.
Fast forward to 2001, the beginning of the war on terror. They American people were given the
common enemy of the Muslim terrorist. Such an image created had devastating effects for most Muslim
males coming into the country. Most were retained and held for questioning. This is much like the
cold war. The theory behind the war was much the same, yet this time the enemy took the form of a
Russian spy.
History is constantly repeating itself, yet most the time we choose not to learn from it. The
current Bush administration has many example of this. I agree with the general idea though, we
should learn from history. |
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All historical events are really just a random series of contingencies. History is far too random
to allow us to learn anything.
I don't think that detracts from the importance of learning History, however. The ability to
critically analyze situations and arguments can really be developed by studying History. |
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It is my belief that we do not learn from history. Not only do we not learn from last Tuesday, we
do not learn from our families mistakes, our own mistakes, the mistakes of our nation or the
mistakes of the human species or race. After the devastating extermination of the Jews known as the
Holocaust, we believed that nothing like that would ever happen again.
Now Holocaust deniers and other people like that aside, you would think that we could learn from the
mass murder of millions and millions of people. However, in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, mass executions
took place. We do not learn from the saddest and most horrendous times.
When I think about America, it did not learn from the Vietnam War. The lesson of the Vietnam War
was, you cannot defeat an enemy on their home soil, because the move from open war to terrorism.
This is exactly the pattern that has been followed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Yes, we can learn from our mistakes, but many of us make the same mistake over and over again. In
love, we are fools always, we cannot learn from our own personal history.
It seems that perhaps conditioning is a way to learn. If something hurts consistently, we tend to do
it less. But I say less and not that we stop doing it.
So, if we do not learn from history on the macro level, and we do not seem to learn from history on
the micro/personal level, how do we learn? It seems that we learn little from our past other than
through that which hurts us. |
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18 Dec 2007 02:13
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