▶ Your Answer : Many people consider the present and future is completely different from the past. It might be true for some aspects, because new technology has been introduced every single day and it is changing our life totally different from the life several years ago. Therefore, some people think understanding the past is useless to solve the current problems. However, I agree with the idea that we can find solutions for the present problems through the history by giving two reasons as below. First of all, we can utilize and apply the skill of the past to the current new technology. Many people believe that old skills are not useful for the present environment. However, we can adapt great idea from the ancestors' life. For example, in Korea, the ancestors used stone for the floor to maintain the temperature. During winter season, they heated the stone by using fire under the stone, then the stone keeps the heat long time. Otherwise, in the summer, usually stones easily become cooler than other materials such as wood and soil. Therefore, Korean ancestors could spend warmer winter and cooler summer. I think this is very good idea to be applied for modern house. If we install stones floor when we construct the house, we can save a lot of energy. Of course we don't have to use fire for heating the stones, but we can use just small amount of electronic energy. Secondly, we can learn wisdom which can't be acquired from technology but can be transferred from experience. To be specific, in Korea, people had slept with their babies when they raised offspring. Young generation, however, changed this life style because they learned western culture and considered that culture is better. So, they are using cribs and leaving their babies in the separated room. On the contrary, recently, many studies were published that when parents sleep with their babies, the babies feel more comfortable and safe. These papers also insists that, as a result, the number of children who are suffering from mental disabilities such as ADHD will be drastically decreased. Through these researches, we can realize old style might be a better way to raise babies with stable emotion. As we have experienced, new technology is very useful and actually changing our life more convenient and fast. However, we can get a idea for new skills and wisdom from our history, as I mentioned above. Therefore, I agree that understanding the past is very important to get good solutions for the current problems.
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