Is History Important?

[mushroom25]

history should be compulsory at GCSE, says Antony Beevor

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11116561/Antony-Beevor-history-should-be-compulsory-at-GCSE.html

is it relevant to today's students?

(btw how many of you didn't get 100% in the quiz?)

[woofgang]

It was one of the interesting things about the "Farm" series on the beeb and also the "garden" and the "kitchen garden" series that they did cover the minutiae of every day life so far as they could.

[pixie373]

Which isn't true anyway. As you can see, my history is incompetent, but I've never started any wars (not major ones anyway). It would never have occurred to me. Maybe it actually does more harm than good.

[-Talbot-]

mushroom25
Question Author
PP, the quote you thinking of is by George Santayana, and is
"those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"



That was me on Sunday (I'm just about over it now though)

[mushroom25]

alcoholic remorse, eh Talbot?

[-Talbot-]

Yes, mushroom...................but it will never happen again, I have learned my lesson!

[jourdain2]

I didn't wander off in a huff Peter, I was absolutely shattered after a very long day in a very tiring week, that's why I wished you goodnight. Certain circumstances do repeat, but there is never an exact match because history is about people and different people react to those circumstances differently. That's why studying the reactions gives us the best clues we can get. OK? Very basic illustration, if arms races take place then a war usually ensues. That's all, nothing Earth-shattering.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah yeah OK I have learnt the lesson