"It's the knowledge of a subject like history that gives you the wisdom you need to put your own life in a broader context, and know what you might be capable of in the future, by knowing what people have done in the past," Munson says. In the Dickens novel, the Gradgrindian system comes to grief, and so it does in real life, if attempts are ever made to found education upon this theory. You might add this one for your students. Meanwhile, another variant reply to 'What is the use of History?' That said, it’s important for all children, regardless of their ethnic heritage, to study African-American history and immigrant history on a year round basis, not just during Black History Month or on certain cultural holidays. They are among the “turning points” of the history of Christianity. Teachers are trying to do the activities that would interest students in the class are known as excellent and very dedicated teachers as they strive to increase the interest and potential to make the students learning something in class. Such reasoning was behind the recent and highly controversial decision in Britain to remove History from the required curriculum for schoolchildren aged 14–16. History also helps teach us how to look at multiple solutions to any problem by comparing multiple versions of events. We refer to the past when comparing it with the present times and deduce the changes that have taken place. I used to get frustrated when people used to say to me that history is irrelevant because it deals with the past, and the past is gone. My husband says that he never really liked taking history in school until his Neither of these options can be undertaken well without understanding the context and starting points. When teens learn about the values that built the country they live in, the wars that were fought to protect certain ideals, the triumphs and failures of different leaders and societies – they can better understand how their own society was shaped, and what their role in it is. It's the story of a group of people, usually bound by common characteristics or, more frequently, a common past. In this way, he paid tribute both to his cultural ancestry and to the cumulative as well as revolutionary transformations in human transportation to which he had so notably contributed.

Understanding all this helps people to establish a secure footing or 'location' within the unfolding saga of time, which by definition includes both duration and change. You would likely base your choice on past experiences or the advice of others based on their past experiences. Hence my twin maxims, the synchronic is always in the diachronic. Many children are told Aesop's Fables and other stories. Time reveals things we may not have seen in the present: solutions to problems, curses that were really blessings in disguise, or trivial matters that fundamentally altered the course of major events. I loved history when I was in school and I still do. Therefore, it makes sense that, as the profession has changed, so has the needs and methods of teacher evaluations.