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| Yes | 79% | 584 votes | Total: 741 votes | |
| No | 21% | 157 votes |
Yes
Created on: February 08, 2008
If history isn't our teacher, it's not history's fault. How often have you vowed you'd have done something
Created on: February 29, 2008
It's hard to think of History as a teacher because it is rarely consulted until something goes wrong.
Created on: June 21, 2007 Last Updated: October 05, 2010
Is history really our teacher? Yes, but at least three questions must be asked:
1. Will those being taught
by Stoneheart
Created on: July 12, 2008 Last Updated: July 14, 2008
How do we progress but by learning from what goes right and what goes wrong, and understanding why?
Does
Created on: March 25, 2008
As a record or report of what happened in the past, history must be acknowledged as our teacher. There
by Judy Joyce
Created on: October 23, 2008 Last Updated: February 02, 2012
HISTORY IS REALLY OUR TEACHER: But What is the Story We are Told?
A rift between academic historians
Created on: March 14, 2008
Our first and most basic learning process occurs as a result of the behaviors we engage in being punished
by Todd Pheifer
Created on: March 17, 2008
By nature, we tend to be paradoxical when it comes to things like history. On the one hand, we put a
by Sparx
Created on: January 16, 2008
There is a saying: Those who cannot learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
It is a valid
Created on: July 25, 2010 Last Updated: July 26, 2010
Today many issues and situations are now taking place some of which bare a
by Eric Lannak
Created on: March 09, 2008
History IS our teacher, but we are not wise enough to accept its lessons. Too often history has shown
by Bryon Mondok
Created on: March 05, 2008 Last Updated: February 21, 2011
History is a mirror that reflects the future. Look away from the glass, and you quickly forget the image
by Uncle Ludwig
Created on: July 24, 2007
History can only teach us when we are capable of, and interested in, learning from it. As such, the
by John Graham
Created on: February 28, 2008 Last Updated: August 06, 2011
History could be our teacher if we had the wisdom to check what we are about to do before we take a
Created on: July 03, 2009 Last Updated: July 06, 2009
History is most certainly our teacher for without history how then are we to learn from our mistakes
by Secre
Created on: February 07, 2008
I am arguing that yes, history should be our teacher when looking at policy. This does not, however,
Created on: July 07, 2007
I do not think it is a question of whether or not history is really a teacher. History is a great teacher.
by Tom Ontis
Created on: November 10, 2007
Right off I will admit that I am biased. I am a history/social science teacher in California. A former
by Jean Marble
Created on: January 15, 2008
Is history really our teacher? To me, that is like asking if nothing has ever been learned by trial
by Neil Woodard
Created on: August 30, 2007
Students in school have a choice. They can choose to learn the material right away, or get left back
No
Created on: June 13, 2007
There is a little saying, "Until lions have their own historians, tales of hunting will always glorify
Created on: August 22, 2007
If history is our teacher then we are poor students.
There should be little question over whether we
by Jerry Curtis
Created on: July 08, 2009
There is much to learn from history, but it has not really been our teacher. Rather, we have been poor
Created on: February 22, 2008
My first response was to say yes we do but I paused and thought about my actions over the years and
by Joseph Arcos
Created on: January 03, 2008
It's unclear whether history, (as it's said), repeats itself, or if the study of history in fact provokes
Created on: July 06, 2007
As the saying goes, if we do not remember our history, we are doomed to repeat it. Young people today
Created on: June 11, 2007
The saying that if the student never learned, the teacher hasn't taught. This may be the case with teachers
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