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Many of children are sometimes heard from their parents that you have to listen to adults. Perhaps these words mean that older people are wiser than the young relatively. I totally agree to this opinion. I believe that people should learn about the past time however smart they are.
Firstly, people can prepare for the future that is coming up on the basis of the incident of the past time. People don’t know when natural disaster or man-made disaster will happen. All they can do is just prepare for that disaster. If people get the information from ancestors’ reports, they can decrease the damage of disaster. In addition, there are always so many crimes in society. If we don’t have previous instances, it is more difficult to catch culprits. They are not completely same with the past crimes, but former examples will be helpful to the police.
Secondly, previous examples can give some advice in various fields to people living in the present. To start with, social science is different from natural science. For this reason, there are no fixed rules in the world of humanity. In natural science, if people know the law of nature, they can predict the further situation. However, this is not applied to social things. However, people want and need to know what will happen when they do something. This is why people living now have to learn about the past time. The previous examples can give some hints. It is not perfect but a great service to what people do. For instance, those can be helpful in economic field and political field as well as in everyday life.
All people are living in the present, but this moment will become a past time, too. The Past, the present and the future are like a long line, so each moment is related other moments. Some examples that happened in the past days can be a good teacher. It means people need to understand not only the present they live in but also the past. |