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The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives.
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What is the purpose of studying history? Do people study history for the reason that history is relevant to daily lives or for its other values that is not seemly related to our daily lives? This is not an absolute matter, as far as I concerned, the study of history is for both of the purposes.

Admittedly, the study of history has a significant influence on our daily lives. By studying history, people learn something about human's past and our forefathers' way of live. What is more important, we obtain the experiences from the history and these experiences can apply good guidance to our daily lives. One case in point is that by the study of historical materials of climate, researchers today draw the general map of the historical changes of climate and work out what kind of climate disasters had took placed in history. Then researchers analyze the frequency and position of such climate disasters, the geographic phenomenon when the disaster happened and the unusual animal activities that had been recorded in history documents. Though studying the information, they can have the ability to predict climate disasters and alarm people to do preparations in the future. This study is close with our lives and has important meanings for humans.

From what is mentioned above, we can find that the study of history is necessary to human beings and has vital value because it is relevant to our daily lives. On the other hand, we can not deny that the study of history do have value in some other fields which do not have much relationship with daily lives as in the field of culture.

In the realm of culture, we may feel that it is too far away from us and we can hardly touch the influence of the culture. This feeling is right to some extent just because culture is an unsubstantial concept and the most obvious feature of culture is that it does not have material forms and always exists on an abstract form. As a result, the study of culture in history seems not valuable and does little with people's daily lives, however, although this study may be not so closed with our daily lives, it do have merits from researching into the historical culture development. People today can better understand what ancient people think, their values of the world, their attitudes towards the society and so on, what is more, this study enables us to get guidance from history and foresee the tendency of culture since history reflects the development of society of humans, it gives us lessons, teaches us wisdom, shows us the way and leads us to a much profounder standpoint. That is to say, history makes people wise; the study of history is also valuable when it is not relevant to our daily lives.

In a word, we can not treat the study of history as valuable only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives. It is merited whether it is related with our everyday lives or not for the reason that the study of history has special meanings to humans: it reflects our past and tells us the future.

[ Last edited by staralways on 2005-8-11 at 12:58 ]

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