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There might be some people who believe that studying bygone time is of value to people who live in the here and now. However, I personally disagree with the above idea for two subsequent reasons. First, it is not helpful to solve problems in today’s society. Second, studying history is not practical.
To begin with, a number of problems these days cannot be solved by studying bygone time. Generally speaking, many things, including the environment, cultures, society, and economy, have been changed during a long time. Of course, there would be some similar problems or situations compared to the past. However, so many details are different that it is meaningless to analyze today with past cases. Let me bring up my personal story as an example. When I was a high school student, a teacher of history gave the assignment to look for a past incident that would be helpful to solve today’s complicated economic problems, especially labor things. Therefore, I started reading all the books that looked to have information about this topic. However, I failed to find the appropriate cases to explain the assignment, so I had to go to school without satisfying results. Surprisingly, almost 80 percent of the students failed to uncover the cases either, even the smartest student in my class Suzy.
On top of that, people cannot get pragmatic information with history. In general, students have to study for entering university, sometimes which needs to master historical subjects, but it is partial problems. Besides, when they grow up, they have to prepare to make money for their lives. Therefore, it is more helpful for them to learn utilitarian technologies or fields like business or economics, not bygone time. For instance, I have a friend who majored in history at university. She really liked to study many cases and information in the past. However, she had difficulty getting a job after graduating. My major was business that I could find a job related to what I studied easily. Accordingly, she said to me that she loved to study history, but she should have had focused on subjects useful in society. This clearly shows that studying bygone time is useless to subsist in the present.
In a nutshell, the past is different from the present, so studying bygone time is not useful for solving problems here and now. Furthermore, there is a lot of utilitarian information apart from historical things. In this regard, I strongly agree with the statement. |