People who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat the same mistake. Temporary dismissal, stock market crash, foreclosure is a buzzword in the 1930s and is now our daily reality. The 1930s was one of the most difficult times in American history. Millions of people are suffering and have lost almost everything they have. When Franklin Rooseveld (FDR) became president in 1932, the banks, credit and industrial systems of that country had collapsed. President Roosevelt proposed a "new policy" to stabilize the economy effectively if it succeeds and end the recession of the country.
"People who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat this." There are many changes to this. There are good reasons. This is basically correct. The history of ignorance is causing ignorance for now as well. Ignoring the lessons that history has taught will be repeated unless racial discrimination, hatred, fear, and violence worsen. If we do not want to repeat our ancestor's mistakes, we have to study them and grow from experience. Pursuing a degree in history makes it possible to do this. History is not mere research of the past. We studied the past to better understand the present, predict the current position, the way we came here and the goal. History is not a simple study of the original fact, but an explanation of events, causal relationships, attitudes, actions to understand the change of civilization over time.
History should be repeated. Old proverb: "A man who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it" is a bit incomplete. People who fail to learn from history will be destined to repeat the same mistake; those learned from history will repeat their success. "Successful battles, civil rights movement and other difficult lessons learned can be easily translated to the present.
"People who fail to learn from history are supposed to repeat the same mistake." Born of George Santayana, famous for Churchill. George Bernard Shaw adds as follows. Now that we do not seem to have learned our course, we are to repeat them. But I can not yield to sneer. Many of us still understand clearly the lessons of history and I am anxious not to repeat these lessons. Whether in the USA or the west, what we have witnessed familiar with Europe in the early twentieth century. It is not exactly the same, and it was not so, but the trend is there. The origin of fascism is in World War I. Millions of people were mobilized to fight in trenches, the difference between combatants and civilians disappeared. It seems to mean the end of liberal democracy