Throughout the last two years working, I've learned a few valuable lessons. Lessons that I would never learn from school.
One lesson I learned is people never change. I'm not talking about individual's life. What I meant is that the emotions inside of us are the same since the Romans or even earlier. It's more valuable to learn how to deal with people than any technical skill.
What we should learn from Social Studies is about people. People were driven by greed to gather fur, desire to own property, or any other reasons. The wars and things they did were just the product of their desires, emotions and hopes. I think study of people are more significant than study of dates and places.
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History is boring because it repeats itself...-_-... and people never change, and never learn from their ancestors or lessons from the past. So, the conclusion is...there shouldn't be any history class at all, HAHAHA!
History books are written by man too, so it could be subjective or biased too. But some kind of record is better than nothing I guess.
Ummm..
More than half of the Bible is Israel history and testimonies of Jesus. Bible is often considered bias and subjective.
If a book is objective, then it would offer two different views on this subject. There's nothing in the Bible to say God is not holy, not just nor full of love.
However, you are right saying that history is boring. I think mostly because they teach only the uninteresting parts in school.
There are a lot of colourful history, and some of them are even funny!
Hehe, I totally agree w/Donna. History class is boring, the most significant thing for me in this class is to memorize all the things I needed for exams ^o^. Therefore, I've 110% returned all the things I should learn from this class, haha.
Anyway, Mansun, you had very good pt. History is more about ppl, not those dates and places. What a good reminder for us. Thx for the sharing.
Thanks for your sharing, Mansun. Your sharing reminds me of the movie "K-Pax". The main character, who is an alien from a civilized and advanced planet (acted by Kevin Spacey), says " Why are you human beings make the same mistake over and over again? When will you guys learn from your mistake?" Mansun, you are right that history is about people, not dates and places. It's because only people have the power to alter the history by not making the same mistake again, not the environment!
Ha...but when will people change and learn from their ancestors? It's sad to know that Israelites are still waiting for their Christ.
You learn that people never learn...but you are people too! so did you really learn? Hahahaha
I am just kidding, I gotcha. Human nature is the same no matter how much we think we've evolved/revolutionized. Why haven't we realized and change? This is what I think:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein
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