Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.