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Why Is History Important? Out of the Mouths of Babes

27/11/2018

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Little girl in pink dress and taller boy in white shirt and red cap looking at the portale of the Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi, Gerace, Calabria
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​A couple of weeks ago, my daughter came home with a less-than-stellar grade on her history test. When I asked about it, her reply came as a shock to me: “Why do we even need to learn history? We need to look to the future instead of the past.”
​Now, I am all for forward thinking, but as someone who has spent most of her life thinking and learning about what past cultures have done, thought, and written – mainly in the context of language and literature – and how this has impacted and influenced modern thought, language, and literature, I had to stop and really think about what her reply means.

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