Learning about past has no value those of us living in the present?

We study history. However, people think history is a musty study and future and present are more important than past. They consider that history is not relevant to present or future. I don’t agree this assertion. Strictly speaking, there is no present. This moment we are talking now already became past. Moreover, we don’t even know what will happen in the future. We only anticipate them.

In this sense, past is very important for both present and future. First, past help us understand our present. We can understand well about what we are doing this, how come we started that, or what we are supposed to do for those things by learning past. People who are living in the present have never experienced past. It might be very hard for them to understand present. For example, there is someone who works for North and South Korea’s unification. If he doesn’t know enough about what happened between them in the past, he can never find proper solutions. Therefore, learning past is very important for living in today.

Second, furthermore, past is a key to solve problems which will come up in the future. History is repeated. We may meet an event which has happened before. If we learned from past, we can deal with that event properly and prevent making mistake. History provides us with the way we have to go forward.

We study history, not only for an academic study, more for understanding present we are living in now and preparing future we will meet. Without learning about history, there are no present and future.