Yes

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  by Sandra Piddock

  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

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  by Morgan Johnson

  Created on: February 29, 2008

  It's hard to think of History as a teacher because it is rarely consulted until something goes wrong.

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  by Mark Rentschlar

  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

• 4 of 20

  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

• 5 of 20

  by Maurice Sassoon

  Created on: March 25, 2008

  As a record or report of what happened in the past, history must be acknowledged as our teacher. There

• 6 of 20

  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

• 7 of 20

  by Matthew J. Geiger

  Created on: March 14, 2008

  Our first and most basic learning process occurs as a result of the behaviors we engage in being punished

• 8 of 20

  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

• 9 of 20

  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

• 10 of 20

  by Dennis Aubuchon

  Created on: July 25, 2010   Last Updated: July 26, 2010

       Today many issues and situations are now taking place some of which bare a

• 11 of 20

  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

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  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

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  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

• 14 of 20

  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

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  by Wayne Leon Learmond

  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

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  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,

• 17 of 20

  by Charlene Thomas

  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.

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  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

• 19 of 20

  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

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  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