A thread on #education and #History (long one)
When I was in school, I always thought why do I need to study subjects like History, where I have to learn about various civilisations, movements, renaissance’s, arts & culture, emperors & conquers, our ancestors, Religions etc
When I was in school, I always thought why do I need to study subjects like History, where I have to learn about various civilisations, movements, renaissance’s, arts & culture, emperors & conquers, our ancestors, Religions etc
What is the value of history, in a world where new technologies dominate our professional and social lives, and an ability to code is seen as having the same high status and capacity for social advancement as the ability to read once did?
Why study it when it happened in the past and isn’t relevant for today?
I always thought history class was a drag. To me, history just seemed like a jumble of names and dates attached to events long over with and people long dead. What was the point of learning it at all?
I always thought history class was a drag. To me, history just seemed like a jumble of names and dates attached to events long over with and people long dead. What was the point of learning it at all?
During the recent team match between #ENGvWI Michael Holding on the air talked about the benefits of education and learning history. That made me realise everything that is happening today was shaped by yesterday. We can’t get around that.
Everything that happens today was set in motion ten, twenty, a hundred, or even a thousand years ago.
You can’t build a framework on which to base your life without understanding how things work in the world. We cannot escape history as it shapes our entire lives.
You can’t build a framework on which to base your life without understanding how things work in the world. We cannot escape history as it shapes our entire lives.
History paints us a detailed picture of how society, technology, and government worked way back when so that we can better understand how it works now.
What is a law today came about because of events from yesterday and it also provides a terrain for moral contemplation.
What is a law today came about because of events from yesterday and it also provides a terrain for moral contemplation.
Studying the stories of individuals and situations in the past allows us to test his or her own moral sense, to hone it against some of the real complexities individuals have faced in difficult settings. We can take inspiration from their lives
We are talking about the racial issues today. Various slogans are raised with #BlackLivesMatter all over the world. These issues didn’t start last week or last year. They didn’t even start a decade ago. You have to go back several hundred years to get the full and complete story
You can’t fully understand it until you study the history of race relations in America, to know what started it all? You have to study history to understand it and know how to deal with it today.
Everyone should study African American history, immigrant history, and so forth, regardless of their own cultural background. It will encourage us to develop a greater appreciation for multicultural influences within our own communities as well. It will make us more tolerant
History provide us identity, and this is one of the reasons all modern nations encourage its teaching in some form.
It isn’t just learning about own country, ethnic heritage, and ancestry. It’s also a valuable tool when it comes to understanding those who are different from us.
It isn’t just learning about own country, ethnic heritage, and ancestry. It’s also a valuable tool when it comes to understanding those who are different from us.
One of the most influential thinkers of the past few years, Yuval Noah Harari – who operates on a truly global scale, with his books Sapiens and Homo Deus translated into nearly 50 languages – is a historian.
What makes a trained historian one of the world’s most-read voices on the relationship between the past, present and future?
The answer lies, as always, in the methods of historical practice coupled with the historian’s profound concern with how past societies functioned.
The answer lies, as always, in the methods of historical practice coupled with the historian’s profound concern with how past societies functioned.
Historians are trained to treat what they read critically. This means not just reading, looking at or listening to a source – whether a newspaper report, a medieval charter, an interview or a 16thcentury woodcut – but questioning it.
History trains you to ask questions of your material: where does it come from? Who wrote it, designed it, wanted it? Who paid for it and why? How powerful and successful was this kind of source or message? What kinds of evidence, data and perception lie behind different views?
In a world where fake news can influence elections, the methods of the historian - Questioning things and getting into the detailed analysis of every data we have and everything we read, can prevent the wide spread of #fakenews and bring some stability to our society
Trying to understand how things happen and their consequences is something that is important, not just in an empirical sense: that historians have the knowledge to correct gross misinterpretations of the past bandied about as truths on the internet and by political elites alike.
Too often, nations have repeated mistakes that many have made in the past. If they had studied history, they would have realized how decisions had played out in the past with certain groups. Don’t make the same mistakes when you have history to teach you about it.
Think about this pandemic #covid19. This is not the first pandemic we ever had, and is definitely not going to be the last. But our learnings out of this will make us better prepared for the future pandemics as the history of past pandemics have prepared us better for this one
Similarly, Many politicians try to use history to justify their comments or actions. If we want honest politicians, we have to start with educating ourselves and making them tell us the truth. Show them that we are not blind mice to be led around.
History is more than just the living record of nations, leaders, and wars. It’s also the story of us. It’s packed with tales of how someone stood up for what they believed in, or died for love, or worked hard to make their dreams come true.
All of those things are concepts we can relate to. It is enriching to know about the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, or Martin Luther King, through movies, television shows, and fiction novels. It make us experience their lives right here in reality
Now lets come to the history of religions. If the only people who understand Christianity are Christian, or Islam are Muslims, or Hinduism are Hindus, we are condemned to a world of misunderstanding, conflict and sectarianism.
All of the recent stories like Syrian immigrants, evangelical voters, the rise of the BJP in India, anti-Muslim rhetoric, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, neo-Catholicism under Pope Francis would be fundamentally illuminated if all of us had knowledge of the religious actors
If we cede understanding of religious ideas to religious individuals, we lose the capacity to comprehend the motivations behind the thoughts and actions of anyone beyond our own religious tradition.
“Those that do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Geroge Santayana
“Those that do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Geroge Santayana
P.S : Many of the points are taken from multiple sources I have gone through!! The aim of this thread is to make everyone aware of the importance of #History in our lives and how it impacts us everyday!!
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