Human beings have lived with cutting edge technologies and the world requires more and more expert information. So, many people may think that mathematics and science is more important to advance to a convenient world. However, I agree that it is more important for students to study history and literature than it is for them to study mathematics and science. This is because we have many social problems and we can solve these problems with experiences to learn through history and literature. Also, mathematics and science are difficult subjects for many people to approach because they are more specialized. On the other hand, history and literature are familiar and are more often met for people. Therefore we should more concentrate on history and literature.
First of all, history and literature have ability that solves many problems such as harsh world. People are getting increasingly prosaic and hard-hearted. In this situation, if people focus on learning mathematics and science which is logical and rational, world is just more mundane. However, literature and history have power to change the world that is warmhearted. To be specific, literature which is involved many touching and sentimental stories makes warmer and emotional people. For example, I read a certain disabled person’s autobiography and I can feel disable’s hard although I can’t understand thoroughly and start to help volunteer work. And, as it says history repeats itself, learning and analyzing history is the ways we can solve the problems we face now. In other words, we learn wisdom and lesson trough history.
Another reason is that people can get close history and literature easily. Their material is things we can encounter in usual such as struggle, and love. Furthermore, we meet naturally them while watching TV and enjoying hobby. For example, from old times, history is material of drama and movies and literature can read through books. So, we gain knowledge and learn wisdom.
To sum up, we have lived in this increasingly technological world and today’s society is changing at a fast pace. And, because many problems arouse in this society. So, we more respect history and literature that have power to solve problems. In other world, the more world is developed in science part, the more history and literature is positively necessary. |