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issue54.History teaches us only one thing: knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
提纲：
1、时代在进步，而且过于因循守旧会阻碍创新和发展。
2、只有尊重历史，不断总结历史，才能帮助我们在今天作出正确的决策。
   A、前人的成功经验是我们的榜样，而且其积累的知识和经验是今天成就的基础。
   B、前人的失败和教训可以让我们避免犯同样的错误。
   
Whether history can bring any benefits for the contemporary society is always under hot debate. The speaker is obviously pessimistic about the function of history. I concede that the same historic events would not happen again and stubbornly sticking to the former rules could certainly impede society's further development, yet in my opinion, history actually have great contributions to our decision makings today.

Admittedly, human society is not a stagnant one and ceaseless changes are its constant character. As time passed by, we could continually meet new problems and new challenges together with the changing world and environment. Since the identical historic events and figures would not repeat, people who try to seek existing dogma from the piles of old paper and doggedly resist any new changes would certainly lag behind the era. In this sense, overemphasizing the importance of history may hamper us from catching up with the pace of social development and would endanger the enthusiasm of innovation. For instance, in this technological age, advanced automations and communication technologies have sharply changed people's conventional working style. Any people, if unwisely adhere to the outmoded technologies and refuse to assimilate the updated knowledge and change their outdated working traditions, would have comparatively low productivity and lose competitive power soon.

However, unwisely depreciating the value of history would cause large loss for our society. Fully respecting the history, wholeheartedly assimilate precious experiences and avoiding the mistakes of our predecessors would surely benefit us today. On one hand, the achievements of our predecessors provide the base for our progress now. Newton once said that if he had achieved something just because he was standing on the shoulders of giants. Obviously, the advance of each field requires continuously accumulating of data, knowledge and experiences. If our contemporary scientific or social accomplishment can be regarded as skyscrapers, the efforts and fruits of predecessors are the groundwork and bricks. The discovery of Halley Comet is a telling example. After thoroughly comparing large amount of comet observation records made by generations of scientists, Halley eventually found the similarities of the periods of some records. He further induced that these records actually refer to a unique comet and predicted that this comet would return again 76 year later. In short, without the laborious data collections of the former astronomers, Halley comet may still be an unnoticed comet in the sky.

On the other hand, historical failures and lessons are also precious treasures for us today. Although identical events would not repeat, similar ones would surely reappear once and again. Our predecessors' mistakes would teach us adversely that what kind of actions is doomed to fail, and what kind of ideals is hard to realize. Wise men would always be willing to remember the failures in the past and therefore do better in the future. Take postwar Germany as an example. During the World War II, Germans' immoral and atrocious fascist slaughter deprived millions of Jew's lives, which aroused sharp condemn and censure all over the world. After the war, having deeply reflected on its guilty, Germany began to pay attention to moral standards and regulations while making its diplomatic policies. From now on, Germany recovered quickly and reconstructed its image on the world's political stage. The collapse of Owen's Utopian society is another illustration. Owen's ideal to establish a society where exists no poverty, no war and no private property, eventually failed for lacking practical foundation. His practice teach us that any social innovations, if overlooks the reality, is only a lofty illusion at best.

In sum, with the rapid social development, obstinate people who refuse to progress with the era and assimilate new ideas would be discarded by the society. Yet, at the same time, we should fully realize the value of history upon our decision makings, for both historical achievements and failures would help us be more sagacious and successful.

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很不错的文章。论点和论据都不错，多谢