Recently in a chat room someone was talking about history. Just to stir things up a little I said "History is for people who have no ambition for the future". I said this off the top of my head without really actually thinking. But then as I shifted to another window to do some work, I realised that this is actually quite true. We spend so much time on a past, that is often so violent and misdirected, that we spend very little time trying to improve the future.
I also hated history in school. To this day I believe it was the worst subject. Even the small amount of medieval history, that did actual interest me, was some what under underhandedly boring. This could have been the teachers fault, or the fact that I didnt like school in general though. But now I know, it's because deep down, I really truelly honestly know, that history as a subject in school, is useless. |
