The present day, Many people aren't interested to a past time. They just treat history like old things. However, the past time cause all of a situation at today. As for me, therefore, every university students should be required to take history courses. My reason for this are that it is common knowledge and the present is interlinked with the past.
First of all, history is common knowledge that has to know everyone. History is a root of ourselves. someone who don't know history of his country is equal that someone don't know his parents. For example, many korean history was distorted by japanese while at the japanese colonial period. Japanese wanted to destory patriotism for Korea through distorting history, they tried to make a perfect colony Korea. It is very terrible things. Although japanese was oppresive, our ancestor preserved our true history. As a result, it became a power of independent.
In addtion, the present is interlinked with the past. Cause and effect are always existence. If cause don't occur, effect would not be in there. So we can suppose the future and prepare the future by learning history. The best example of this is a historian. The past day, many historians predict the future, and assume the reins of goverment. A book of history is their textbook, and they usually debate about history.
To sum up, history is pretty important subject from the past to the present. For this reasons, all university students should be required to take history courses. |