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发表于 2007-7-26 21:46:05
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History is a process that witnesses the development of human being, and it can influence the development of nowadays society, but I don't agree that the historical study should be required to relate to our daily lives, which to embody its value.
First of all, history is a subject that has existed for a long time, and it has its inward value while it was born. People started to study history from ancient times, a lot of historians devote themselves to history research not only for daily lives, but also for concluding the rule of the human development, understanding the culture progress, and predict the future. It is not relevanting to daily lives endowed the history with value, in contrast, it is historical study that makes the lives more valuable. For example, we often cite some events of great people in history to encourage some one, however, it does not means that the events we cite make these people great, but because these people themselves are great in history and they are valuable for us. Consequently, it is unfair to consider that the value of history depend on relevant it to our daily lives.
Second, the value of history embodied not only in the aspect of relevant it to our daily lives, but also in other aspects. For example, through historical study, we can learn to avoid those mistakes that committed in history to repeat in our way. In order to see this point clear, let us see an example in Britain. In eighteen century, Britain is the most powerful country in the world, so they invade a lot of countries include America and other countries, there are so many wars between British colonizer and American in America continent, and finally, the American who under lead ship of George Washington defeat the colonizer, in addition, they attained the liberty and establish their own country. In nowadays, we can also understand that invading and suppressing freedom will finally be defeated by research history.
Admittedly, applying the results of historical study to our daily lives can help us comprehend the value of history in a direct way, which makes the history more lively and more meaningful. However, it didn’t means that we should consider whether relevant the history to lives as the only criteria to judge the value of history. In the premise of admit and respect the history value, try to combine history experience and daily lives, then both history and our lives will more valuable. For instance, when we learn Beethoven whose life is full of frustrations, when we learn Edison who was forced to leave school when he was young, when we learn Lincoln who was assassinated because he fight for saving slaves of America and so on, the history also teaches us to be brave and fortitude, and to struggle for achieving own value.
In sum, never doubt about the value of history, the development of human being is an embodiment of history value, for the study of history can provide us competence and power. |
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