History Is Important. Why?

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History is a contentious area of the National Curriculum. The act of remembrance and commemoration towards historical events are imperative in the development of creating and nourishing a communal identity and in constructing and transmitting an ethnic or national identity to generations of the future. Everything has a history, including wars, nations and peoples. History is visible in every place of the world. History knowledge is very important, to not know history is ignorance in my opinion. Everyone should know where he or she come from, leading on from that, history focuses on the cause and affect around us today. Peter Stearns says, “We need to study history.” (1998). Some reasons why we must accumulate to study history are: History helps us understand people and societies- we can utilize history from the past to describe why we act the way we do. We would also able employ the past to express laws or theories concerning human behaviour. History assists us to understand how things change and how the society we are accustomed to in came to be. We can use history to comprehend why certain actions transpire while history also presents to us, a trend we can see what made a trend rise or fall and according to that, we can alter things to our benefit. History in addition, can provide identity. We use history to come across facts about our genealogy. Linking this to historical data, in which is used by a nation to give the people an understanding of national values and a commitment to national loyalty, for example an individual in a war. Each person’s worldview is formed by individual experiences, as well as the experiences of the group to which he or she resides in. If society presents ignorance of the contemporary and historical experiences of an assortment of cultures, then it cannot hope to come to an agreement why people, communities or nations behave the way
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