You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.
No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.
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