Its history....
Today, was talking about some incidents which i read in history with couple of my friends and they don't seem to have heard on the same , but hey they were part of lessons for any kind of board you take in India.Not that they weren't interested by the topic, they found it interesting enough,but then why did not they, either remember reading about them or missed reading the same?
It is not that no one is interested in the past, if you ask me since we can not know about the future,at least knowing the past covers two of the three tenses and also your virtual exposure to expanse of the time in the universe,after all universe was created in the past,so it is history besides science.
I have also noticed lots of people taking pride in saying that they did not like history in their school and complaining that it is just a memory game.But I don't seem to remember any dates but i do remember some interesting incidents that i read and trust me, people, who hate history ,have always found these topics engrossing.
Then i think the culprit can be either our education system or our educators.but it is more often the educators rather than the system, if you ask me, how else can you explain my interest in history(more to do with the way my teacher taught me) and another friend's hatred of the same,coming from the same board, leaving apart our individual interests, a good educator can make you read the subject if not love it.
Knowing the past also makes us value the future and the present.If we really value,energy for example,that means you know how difficult it is to get the same and we did get the same because of the past.
There is this ride in EPCOT, as everthing else in Disney is, is huge and it is about conserving energy.I dont have the money to tell the same in a huge screen, i really dont know how many inches the screen was, but it was huge,really huge, but i think it got across people ,atleast 10% of them who came to disney.
We get energy from the past and we get everything else from the past, for the future to have their past correct, we have to make our present undestructible for the future.
I always want people to think before wasting anything leave alone Energy, just because you can afford to pay a few extra bucks on the energy that you waste,doesnt necessarily mean the future can afford it.Every small thing counts and small things in the past is a huge assert for the present and small things of the present are a huge assert for the future.
Just quoting a wonderful line i came across " You have borrowed the earth from your future generations, you have no right to destory it".
If your selfish enough to think that you dont mind what happens after you die after say 100 years, just think about how we think of people who tried to say that 100 years before.
Preserve your present to preserve your past for your future.
Today, was talking about some incidents which i read in history with couple of my friends and they don't seem to have heard on the same , but hey they were part of lessons for any kind of board you take in India.Not that they weren't interested by the topic, they found it interesting enough,but then why did not they, either remember reading about them or missed reading the same?
It is not that no one is interested in the past, if you ask me since we can not know about the future,at least knowing the past covers two of the three tenses and also your virtual exposure to expanse of the time in the universe,after all universe was created in the past,so it is history besides science.
I have also noticed lots of people taking pride in saying that they did not like history in their school and complaining that it is just a memory game.But I don't seem to remember any dates but i do remember some interesting incidents that i read and trust me, people, who hate history ,have always found these topics engrossing.
Then i think the culprit can be either our education system or our educators.but it is more often the educators rather than the system, if you ask me, how else can you explain my interest in history(more to do with the way my teacher taught me) and another friend's hatred of the same,coming from the same board, leaving apart our individual interests, a good educator can make you read the subject if not love it.
Knowing the past also makes us value the future and the present.If we really value,energy for example,that means you know how difficult it is to get the same and we did get the same because of the past.
There is this ride in EPCOT, as everthing else in Disney is, is huge and it is about conserving energy.I dont have the money to tell the same in a huge screen, i really dont know how many inches the screen was, but it was huge,really huge, but i think it got across people ,atleast 10% of them who came to disney.
We get energy from the past and we get everything else from the past, for the future to have their past correct, we have to make our present undestructible for the future.
I always want people to think before wasting anything leave alone Energy, just because you can afford to pay a few extra bucks on the energy that you waste,doesnt necessarily mean the future can afford it.Every small thing counts and small things in the past is a huge assert for the present and small things of the present are a huge assert for the future.
Just quoting a wonderful line i came across " You have borrowed the earth from your future generations, you have no right to destory it".
If your selfish enough to think that you dont mind what happens after you die after say 100 years, just think about how we think of people who tried to say that 100 years before.
Preserve your present to preserve your past for your future.
Comments
learning history as a lesson and learning history with interest and knowledge have their own differences.
Ofcourse I agree, a teacher is the prime factor for a person to develop interest in, any subject for that matter, leave alone history.
However , the pressure of examination could have developed such "hatred" in minds of the poor young students, I would say. So it becomes a responsibility of the "system" which conducts some stereotyped exams.
Back to the article,
"making the present indestructible for the future" was my favorite part.
That was more on the lighter side. But coming to think of it, history is extremely important in understanding why people are the way they are. But, why did you care if africans were tall and dark back then? At the age when history is taught, it is anything but significant. In my opinion, history should strictly be part of your high school or graduation. That is when people and cross-cultural skill even sounds like something you want.
Am I wrong?