Answer to Question #249670 in English for Mae

Question

Through different civilizations our lives become better and easier. How do you value the teachings and experiences in the past that helped understand and know things better in the following places?At home,In school and in community

Answer 1

Students prior experiences, interests, and thought processes can influence the learning of current content area concepts due to their prior experiences, stress, perceptions and attitudes that can interfere with or distort the material that they are trying to learn. Studying history helps us understand and grapple with complex questions and dilemmas by examining how the past has shaped (and continues to shape) global, national, and local relationships between societies and people.

Teachings and experiences in the past has helped us also in the following ways;

• The past teaches us about the present - It helps us to see patterns that might otherwise be invisible in the present thus providing a crucial perspective for understanding (and solving) current and future problems. For example, a course on the history of public health might emphasize how environmental pollution disproportionately affects less affluent communities.
• It builds empathy through studying the lives and struggles of others - Studying the diversity of human experience helps us appreciate cultures, ideas, and traditions that are not our own and to recognize them as meaningful products of specific times and places. 
• Everything has a history - Everything we do, everything we use, everything else we study is the product of a complex set of causes, ideas, and practices. Even the material we learn in other courses has important historical elements whether because our understanding of a topic changed over time or because the discipline takes a historical perspective. There is nothing that cannot become grist for the historian’s mill.