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Issue103"The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives."

Although the larger social environment has being changed quickly, human learn experience from similar events ever happened in human history. From my point of view, it is really worth studyiny history no matter which period of history involves or how relevant it is to our daily lives, for the reason that the research process itself is an excellent training for the young mind, besides practical experience extracted from historical information.

To begin with, history tells substantial experience with which people could deal with the present and predict the future to some degree. Take the fanancial crisis now the globe faced as an example. Although the reasons for current fanancial crisis and for the great depression in the United States in 1929 may be different, but the results of it are extremely resembled—the United States was plunged into its most severe economic downturn in 1929 while the most countries across the world, especially the developed countries, are struggling against the retrogradation in economic—perhaps people could find good solutions to the current fanancial problems by analyzing the Great Depression and more other events in economic history. Besides the economic area, people can conclude practical rules by studying history in other fields as well, such as the
period of volcano eruption in geology, the incidence of a diseases in epidemic.

In the second place, history reveals where we came from and how our society has been shaped. “History must serve, however imperfectly, as our laboratory” said by Peter N. Stearns, “and data from the past must serve as our most vital evidence in the unavoidable quest to figure out why our complex species behaves as it does in societal settings.” It illustrates why we cannot stay away from history, because “history offers the only extensive evidential base for the contemplation and analysis of how societies function, and people need to have some sense of how societies function simply to run their own lives.”

Lastly, even if some kinds of history have no relevance to our daily lives, studying history help people develop essential skills, like critical thinking, accessing evidence, which is required for an educated person. Now that in the process of historical study people are inevitable to meet diverse interpretations, learning how to combine different kinds of evidence—public statements, private records, numerical data, visual materials—develops the ability to make coherent arguments based on a variety of data. This is an essential citizenship skill which can be applied to information encountered in everyday life. Therefore, studying history provides people some useful skills.

To sum up, history is worth learning no matter it is relevant to our daily lives or not, because people can get experience from it, with which we code with the current things more easily, and history reveals how our society is informed, and studying history also force people grasping some
practical skills.

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