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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Not sure I agree.

People who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it and make really bad decisions

Theres a reason why Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists tend to have very poor educations and lack of historical knowledge. Lack of understanding history leads to ideologies like "Why don't we just build a massive wall?" and "Our army is so strong we can just steamroll a smaller one and insert a new strong government there"

it might not be as quantifiable as learning math and writing, but learning history and more importantly how to understand history is vital to a strong society

That's one way of looking at it from a societal standpoint but from a individuals PoT it's relevance falls significantly. Having a encyclopedia books worth of knowledge could be useful every blue moon but for most jobs, sports hobbies and everyday is utterly useless. And if you don't utilize something you're eventually lose it.

And that quote is famous but just because you know history doesn't mean people won't repeat it regardless. Be it in one form or another, intentional or not. From racism, slavery, war, inflation, communism, dictators, genocide.

All are well known to most but they all still happen, somewhere, regardless. It's just a matter of when.

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