In today's competitive society, it is true that subjects such as science and technology seem to be useful. However, the reason that school should teach students history is its worth. One of the worth is that people who are equip with historical knowledge are prone to devote to their countries. Also, when learning history, students realize the importance of corporation.
First of all, people who know history in detailed are likely to devote to their countries. In fact, it is hard to enable citizens to devote to countries by the reason that they merely live in the country. Instead, history knowledge that they have cause their devoted behaviors toward country . In school, by learning history, students realize that their happiness come from their ancestors' effort and this change their attitudes toward country in a positive way. For example, according to a school's report, students started to have dreams to become governor or politicion since they teach history. They said that their students realized the importance of country in the history class and started to interested in economy, politic, and community of country. This clearly demonstrates that history class have positive effect on students' perspective toward country.
In addition, through history class, students learn community spirit. Actually, knowing their own origin play a significant role in having community spirit. In history class, students realize that they come from the same root and this teach them the reason why they have to help and cooperate each other despite of their different personalities and appearances. From my experience, during travel, I met a person who was Korean but have lived in United State for his entire lives. I knew we were the same country people but I was so hard to regard him as Korean. This was because while he did not care our country's issues and history not at all, he knew most of issues related to United State. I understood him but felt that he seemed to close to not Korean but American. |