Is there a point to studying history?
916542
Good question Sian,why do we?.......'cos we don't seem to learn sod all from it!
1124203
the role of history ed is to help u understand what people went throw, go throw, what happened in the past is VERY important so that we can prevent it in the future!it is there so that we learn our rights & understand that life isn't easy & that we got to do our best to help everyone and so that we can live better and progress history is a VERY important subluct to learn & if U have an awesome history teacher it can also be EASY,  sorta fun, & sorta interesting!
952778
you should clarify your question. you should keep on studying though... unless you feel confident that you know the subject matter.... umm....
284731
History is not obsolete you idiot or is it boring i love it. Why dont u go ask another dumb ass question tard.
76534
Believe it or not...studying.
842987
Is this a history question?
298115
It doesn't.  It is important to study the past so we can learn from the collective experience of the human race.  That way we can avoid repeating mistakes, and try to repeat sucessful choices.
1073539
Welcome to Academia, where the purpose of education is not employment and eventually financial security, but rather the pursuit of enlightenment.\n\nYou may or not may not learn something in those "filler" classes, but the purpose of those classes isn't to teach you about whatever is the subject du jour... the purpose is to teach how you think and approach problems.  This may seem like a stupid waste of time, but the very fact that you had to ask this question says that you'll benefit a lot from it.
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1. to prevent the past from repeating itself.\n2. to learn how our past or other countries' past has shaped our world.\n3. To learn where we come from (not in the sense of the meaning of life, but of how we developed countries from tribal huts).\n4. if you become a writer some history is good to manipulate for fictional story lines.
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VERY\n\nIf you learn from history you can avoid common mistakes.
1062
Well, I like to learn about history. The best way I like to learn is to study books or watch the History Channel. The internet is also great. I have also learned a lot about history by participating in yahoo answers. They are all great ways to learn about history
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Probably not in the way that would be most satisfying for people like you and I. We live in a very frustrating time. We must keep reminding ourselves that is may take a hundred years, but historians will one day look back on this as a more than a mistake, but an actual act of terror perpetrated by the United States. \n\nFuture students will look back on it with the same kind of shame with which we view slavery.
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These two fundamental reasons for studying history underlie more specific and quite diverse uses of history in our own lives. History well told is beautiful. Many of the historians who most appeal to the general reading public know the importance of dramatic and skillful writing—as well as of accuracy. Biography and military history appeal in part because of the tales they contain. History as art and entertainment serves a real purpose, on aesthetic grounds but also on the level of human understanding. Stories well done are stories that reveal how people and societies have actually functioned, and they prompt thoughts about the human experience in other times and places. The same aesthetic and humanistic goals inspire people to immerse themselves in efforts to reconstruct quite remote pasts, far removed from immediate, present-day utility. Exploring what historians sometimes call the "pastness of the past"—the ways people in distant ages constructed their lives—involves a sense of beauty and excitement, and ultimately another perspective on human life and society.
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I think the role of social studies is to learn from the past and not to repeat the mistakes. It also makes us comprehend and anaylze specific situations in diffrent time periods.
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it helps you to understand your exact location with respect to some place that you are studying about.it is also very interesting to study maps.plus most importantly knowing your maps well fetches you good marks/grades in geography.
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It will be good if you take history at O levels and continue it at A level.\n\n- some of the topics done at A level is the same as O level although the way questions structured are different. You learn about Southeast Asia in secondary school and if i'm not wrong, you have to study SEAsian too in A levels. Hence in content wise, you might be at the upperhand. \n\nBut one thing to note is that A level history require you to write argumentative essays which requires historical arguments backed up by evidences. and the way u organise and write ur essay would determine ur grades but u will learn these skills in Junior College.\n\n- Exposing yourself to history at O levels will help u to keep in touch of the major issues and arguments in history and also would help you to keep ur interest there. \n\nBut that does not mean that those who did not do history in O levels would not do as well as those who did. I have classmates who did not do O level history but managed to do rather well in A levels. \n\nBut most importantly, u have to know where ur interest is. Don't force urself to to take history if u really don't want to. If you feel that u have a great interest now, just go for it!!! You will get to know so much about how the past has affected the present. It's very interesting!!!
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I think that history plays a major role in our lives. How would we know anything or be able to do anthing without knowing what happened in the past first?