Those who dont know the past are condemned to repeat it...how come?? i dint get it...please explain in detai?

Question

ls with good examples.....

Answer 1

Honestly it's a stupid short hand that teachers use to not have to give an explanation with depth and weight, but it does make sense.

Personal hypothetical example: I paint the walls in my bedroom. The original walls were oil based paint. My new paint is acrylic. It peels and doesn't cover right.  I forget this and paint my living room. The walls peel and look bad. Why? Because I didn't learn you can't paint acrylic over vinyl without scraping the paint or using a primer or something.  

Answer 2

It is a paraphrase of a famous saying by a historian George Santayana.

Those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it.  

The idea is that there are cycles and themes in history that repeat.  The fall of empires.  The danger of invasion with extended supply lines.  Stuff like that.

If Hitler had learned from Napoleon he would not have invaded Russia, because their armies suffered similar fates.

Answer 3

Isn't it: those who don't learn from the past........

Learn from your mistakes so you don't make the same ones again.

Answer 4

Your past is a good platform to evaluate your future. You know there is a saying that "Experience is a teacher that first slaps you then teaches you", I hope you undrestand from this syaing.

As you grow older you understand that those things that your youngers do have good or bad result in future because you have done those in past you know that they have either good or bad result.

So if you do not keep experience of past in your future decisions then you can not take good logical decisions.

You know? People with good experience in different feilds are paid more than those who do not have experience, the reason is that keeping in mind your past helps you take better decisions in future.

All the Best  

Answer 5

It's because then you learn from your mistakes, and other's mistakes. If you don't learn from the past, you will make the same mistakes over and over.  

Answer 6

Learn from your (or someone elses) past or you will keep making the same mistakes.

Example - President Bush's war in Iraq - look up the British war in Iraq of 1920.

President Bush obviously did not read his history - so he is repeating, almost exactly, the same mistakes in the same way that the British did last century. They went to war and bombed and occupied Iraq for control of it's oil ...just as the US currently is.

Answer 7

It's about learning lessons from past events or behaviour to stop repeating the same mistake in the future.

As a child you learn that you can burn yourself when you touch something hot so you avoid doing that again