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MONJORONSON:  Most definitely.  This is perhaps one of the most important [[facets]] of your educational [[system]].  Just as the [[family]] is the ''moral'' school for teaching [[children]] social [[morality]] and social [[ethics]], so too are your schools, and [[parents]], the vehicles for passing on the [[culture]] of your [[society]].  This is essential to teach, as otherwise you must reinvent the past every time you make a [[decision]] in the [[present]].  It is important to teach the [[history]] of your [[civilization]], of your [[culture]], of your nation, the reasons why it came into [[existence]], why it had [[problems]], and how it overcame them.  It is important to teach the [[wisdom]] of success, the wisdom of [[growth]] and [[development]] and social [[evolution]], so that these lessons of [[history]] do not have to be repeated.  Your educational system in this country does not do that very well.  

MONJORONSON:  Most definitely.  This is perhaps one of the most important [[facets]] of your educational [[system]].  Just as the [[family]] is the ''moral'' school for teaching [[children]] social [[morality]] and social [[ethics]], so too are your schools, and [[parents]], the vehicles for passing on the [[culture]] of your [[society]].  This is essential to teach, as otherwise you must reinvent the past every time you make a [[decision]] in the [[present]].  It is important to teach the [[history]] of your [[civilization]], of your [[culture]], of your nation, the reasons why it came into [[existence]], why it had [[problems]], and how it overcame them.  It is important to teach the [[wisdom]] of success, the wisdom of [[growth]] and [[development]] and social [[evolution]], so that these lessons of [[history]] do not have to be repeated.  Your educational system in this country does not do that very well.  

   

   

[[History]] is seen as—no pun intended—an archaic subject to teach that appears to have little [[value]].  However, if the lessons of [[history]] do not prove useful to the present, then you will make the same mistakes, and I might add that your nation is on the cusp of making several very difficult [[decisions]] about its [[existence]].  Its past is primary to guiding those decisions, which are made by [[individuals]] and by [[groups]].  What is most deficient in your [[culture]] is the [[group mind]] that is aware of the [[past]].  Great swaths of your [[population]] are completely unaware of the history of your nation, even why it came into [[existence]], and why it fought the egregious demands and requirements of [[obedience]] to a [[monarchy]], which itself was long past overdue to be overthrown, to evolve and to [[grow]].

[[History]] is seen as—no pun intended—an archaic subject to teach that appears to have little [[value]].  However, if the lessons of [[history]] do not prove useful to the present, then you will make the same mistakes, and I might add that your nation is on the cusp of making several very difficult [[decisions]] about its [[existence]].  Its past is primary to guiding those decisions, which are made by [[individuals]] and by [[groups]].  What is most deficient in your [[culture]] is the [[group mind]] that is aware of the [[past]].  Great swaths of your [[population]] are completely unaware of the history of your nation, even why it came into [[existence]], and why it fought the egregious demands and requirements of [[obedience]] to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy monarchy], which itself was long past overdue to be overthrown, to evolve and to [[grow]].

   

   

I might go further in that, that your people truly do not [[understand]] the right and the need for [[self-determination]], which brought your nation into [[existence]], which gave you your [[freedoms]].  Even now, your [[population]] is seeking an expansion of its right of [[self-determination]], but does not have the [[social mind]] or the wherewithal, the [[courage]] of a firm backbone of [[knowledge]] of [[history]] to do so.  I hope my [[metaphors]] have not [[confused]] you.  

I might go further in that, that your people truly do not [[understand]] the right and the need for [[self-determination]], which brought your nation into [[existence]], which gave you your [[freedoms]].  Even now, your [[population]] is seeking an expansion of its right of [[self-determination]], but does not have the [[social mind]] or the wherewithal, the [[courage]] of a firm backbone of [[knowledge]] of [[history]] to do so.  I hope my [[metaphors]] have not [[confused]] you.

 

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*Teaching history meaningfully

*Teaching history meaningfully