Even though they are the weakest link in the chain, they are critical because they give everyone a purpose; without them, the group feels lost and hopeless. There is no one to teach history, and no one to teach it
After reading the essay by David McCullough, one could have a much better understanding of what it really means to learn about history. He wrote about how most people do not know everything they should already know or at least have an idea about of our history. Many people are not taught about the little details of certain situations that make our history more interesting and true. If the generations and people of today are not taught right, then the younger generations will know even less. This could possibly continue going on until all of what 's taught about history is just a guess or completely wrong.
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Since America loves advancement, especially with technology and society as a whole, there is not that much of a emphasis on their history. Many kids do not like or want to
In History 1111, it teaches a broad introduction to the development of the United States. From the casualty losses to major expansion, the United States has developed World History with each major aspect of important, historical events. In this course I have learned not only important events, but how to analyze them and how they affect our world today. History is a great topic because as we acknowledge past events, it influences the future. Events really mold the culture and society that everyone lives in.
My last reason is that if we do not learn about the past and the mistakes humanity has made we will most likely repeat it. George Santayana a Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy, and literary once said "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.". The past holds mistakes that should not be repeated but most of the time we never look back to the past to make sure we do not repeat those mistakes because we must look back to move forward. Some may say that education is important to children's mental devolvement and so students should not miss school as much as they can. That is true but a healthy family environment is more important for mental devolvement than education.
“Why do I even care about this?” has always been a reoccurring question that I’ve thought about and said aloud in classes I have taken throughout my education. I have always had mixed feelings about certain subjects and topics that were taught in school because in all fairness, why do I need to be taught about something that happened years and years ago? In most classes, some students may feel the same as I would; learning about something that we’ll probably forget about within the next couple of days and possibly never need to use again. Nevertheless, if we’re never taught about history, how are we meant to know about how society functions the way it does now? How would we know not to make the same mistakes that people made years ago especially
Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, these are only a few people mentioned in class, but what about Claudette Colvin who nine months before Rosa Parks, decided not to get off the bus and was taken to jail, or Emmett Till who was 14 and brutally beaten and killed for whistling at a white woman. These are only a few who are not mentioned in our history books or classrooms. Students are taught mathematics, Science, World and American history because it is important. Black history is also important, it teaches the contribution African Americans have made in the past and continue making in the future.
