Teacher - Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
R. G. Collingwood - "History is for human self-knowledge ... the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."
Prof Daniel Besser - To paraphrase, pretty big leap to know what human nature is.
Provost at Washington - Where have all the history majors gone?
Student - Why do we have to study history.
Teacher - Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
R. G. Collingwood - "History is for human self-knowledge ... the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."
Prof Daniel Besser - To paraphrase, pretty big leap to know what human nature is.
Provost at Washington - Where have all the history majors gone?