Why Study History?

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Why Study History?

• Everything you always wanted to know but were
  afraid to ask.

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What some others have said.

• History  gossip well told.  Elbert Hubbard
• Historians are gossips who tease the dead. 
  Voltaire
• The past actually happened but history is only
  what someone wrote down.  A. Whitney Brown
• History is indeed little more than the register
  of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of
  mankind.
• Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)

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still more great minds

• To many of the modern generations, history, like
  God, is dead.  Derek Heather
• History is who we are and why we are the way we
  are.  David McCullough

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do you know who this is?

• I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't
  give a nickel for all the history in the world. 
  History is more or less bunk.  It is a
  tradition.  We want to live in the present, and
  the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is
  the history we make today.  Henry Ford

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Do you think.

• Ford could have made even one car without a good
  understanding of history? Explain your answer.

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interesting.

• "History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing
  yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a
  person secondly, knowing what it is to be the
  kind of person you are and thirdly, knowing what
  it is to be the person you are and nobody else
  is.
• Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do
  and since nobody knows what they can do until
  they try, the only clue to what man can do is
  what man has done. The value of history, then, is
  that it teaches us what man has done and thus
  what man is."
• R. G. Collingwood

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A very deep question here.

• Do you think it is important to know who you are?
  Explain
• Do you think it is important to know who we are
  as a country? Explain

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What do you think?

• Why are you here?
• How will you use history today and in the future?
• What use is history in todays age?
• Dont we live in the present. So why study the
  past?
• What use are old facts and dates that really
  dont mean anything anyway?

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Lets get started and find out..1 the cost

• So that we can learn from the experience of
  others without paying the price it cost them

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Your turn..

• List 3 examples where someone did something in
  the past that made your life safer, easier or
  better today.
• What did it cost them?
• Write your answers, then pair-share

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2great men/women have led the way.if only
we are willing to learn and follow.

• In order to improve ourselves by following the
  examples of great men and women of the past.

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Your thoughts.

• Who do you admire?
• Who is your hero? Why?
• What traits of your hero do you try to emulate?

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3. Dealing with life

• To learn the constant and universal principles
  of human nature by seeing men reacting in
  different kinds of situations and circumstances.
• (Ex. Humans still love, hate, hope, and need
  friends.)

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What do you think?

• What is human nature ?
• Can we control human nature?
• How do you think human nature helps or hurts
  mankind.

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4 survival.

• In order to understand, live, and exist in our
  present world.

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Do you have a plan?

• What are some problems we face in todays world?
• What does it take to live in the world today?
• How do you plan on surviving in the next 10
  years? Give examples how you will achieve this.

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5 truth..

• In order to learn the truth of the past which
  still applies to our present world.

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What lies????????

• Who do you think lies to you the most?
• Why do you think people lie?
• Do you think America or Americans are lied to?
  Explain
• Why does truth have value?

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6 learning by examples..

• So that our nation can learn from the experience
  of nations in the past.
• (Ex. Reasons the Roman Empire fell and how to
  avoid it from happening to our own nation.)

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What should be done.

• What lessons do you think America has learned
  from other countries?
• What lessons do you think America needs to learn?

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7soul searching.

• In order to judge our own customs and actions
  better by examining the customs of different
  peoples.

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Customs.. What makes us who we are.

• What customs define America?
• Do you have personal customs that define who you
  are.

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8 cant we all just get along?...

• To insure order in society by having an
  informed, educated people.
• (Voting, participating, caring etc.)

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How

• How much education do you think one person needs?
  
• How should the people be informed?
• How important is an education?

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9 seeing with new eyes.

• It teaches us to put things in perspective.
• Life..
• Events
• Problems.
• Environment
• Wars..
• Economics.
• Governments
• Cultures
• Sci/tech..
• More?

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10onward.not backwards.

• In order to preserve discoveries and inventions.

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What do you think?

• What is the greatest invention ever? Why?
• What invention do you think has had the greatest
  effect on mankind in the last 100 years?
• .in the last 50 years?
• in the last 10 years?

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11always moving on..

• In order to develop new inventions and make new
  discoveries which are based on knowledge of the
  old ones.
• (Ex. The gasoline engine made the car and
  airplane possible.)

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What do we need to do ?

• What invention(s) need to be discovered to help
  the world?

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12if it workskeep doing it..if it doesnt,
change..

• To help solve our problems by defining the
  problem and showing us what has and has not
  worked in the past.

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13. Live and learn

• To avoid the errors of past people and to profit
  from their good ideas.

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14.. History frees us from the chains of
ignorance

• In order to remove prejudices and increase
  understanding.

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15 looking at ourselves

• To learn from our own past mistakes.

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16a guard of sorts

• To praise the worthy acts of the past and
• KEEP MEN FROM DOING EVIL FOR FEAR OF HOW THEY
  WILL BE VIEWED BY HISTORY.

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What would you do?

• Do you think the record of history will keep men
  or women from doing certain things..?
• Would you not do something, if you knew History
  would record your actions?
• Would you do something if you knew History would
  not record your actions?

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17 time travel.

• In order to travel to another place and time by
  listening to people describe their time and
  country.
• (We can talk to the great and heroic men of the
  past.)

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18 order

• In order to see which laws help to preserve our
  country,
• which ones are useful and good,.
• and which ones are no longer useful.
• To help us in making laws.

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19 who we are or who we want to be?...

• In order to keep our principles alive by keeping
  those thoughts alive.
• (Freedom, honor, trust, loyalty, respect,
  dedication, fairness, selfless, forgiving, ..)

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Who are we?

• What makes an American, an American?
• What defines the United States of America?
• What makes us different than other countries in
  the world?

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20 evaluating..

• In order to judge what can be done by what has
  been done.

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21 applying our knowledge.

• To help (to some extent) predict the future.

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22 moving forward

• In order to advance mans knowledge.

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How do we.?

• How do we make the world a better place using our
  knowledge?
• If you could change something, what would you
  change and how?

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23 we have to run this country..

• To LEARN CITIZENSHIP.

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Lets find out..

• What does citizenship mean to you?
• Why is citizenship important?

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24the brave.

• To LEARN PATRIOTISM.

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Patriotism

• What is patriotism to you?
• How do you show patriotism?
• Why is patriotism important to a country?
• What is wrong with patriotism?

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25.what it is..

• ITS FUN!
• History is the MOTHER OF TRUTH,
• RIVAL OF TIME ,
• STOREHOUSE OF DEEDS,
• WITNESS FOR THE PAST,
• EXAMPLE AND COUNCIL FOR THE PRESENT,
• AND THE WARNING FOR THE FUTURE.

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26 and last but not least

• ITS THE ______. Our government has realized the
  importance of the above reasons for studying
  history. There are some things in life that we
  must do. (Work to eat, etc.)