Topic 6 – UHUSIANO KATI YA JAMII ZA KITANZANIA NA JAMII ZINGINE
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Reasons
for Learning History
1.
History helps us understand humanity
Humans
are complicated. It can be very challenging to figure out why people do the
things they do. When we look at humanity with a broader lens, it can bring more
clarity. In many ways, people are products of their environments, which
includes the eras they were born in. Studying
history can shed light on human behaviour throughout time and help
explain what’s consistent and what seems to be more dependent on context.
2.
Lessons from the Past
Historical
education is meant to deliver today’s people practical lessons, a useful guide
for behavior and political instinct. Each year brings its own crop of crises.
To match them, there are lessons to be drawn from a number of events, many of
them catastrophic, a source of moral instruction of use to the student.
Politicians, commentators, and ordinary people, though misunderstanding it,
often come to find history necessary. It is available daily from the
newspapers, which lead to the observation that the terse, irrational pressure
of the news serves as an illustration of the unique role of history in the
undergraduate curriculum.
3.
The Process of Change Over Time
If
we want to truly understand why something happened — in any area or field, such
as one political party winning the last election vs the other, or a major
change in the number of smokers — you need to look for factors that took place
earlier. Only through the study of history can people really see and grasp the
reasons behind these changes, and only through history can we understand what
elements of an institution or a society continue regardless of continual
change.
