Past and Present
... One step on seeking to enhance our awareness about how the past influences challenges of the present is to realize history is an ongoing, open-ended process, and that the decisions one makes today creates the conditions of tomorrows history. More ways in which the study of history can provide an essential foundation for challenges of the present would be to learn more about the financing of social security, and from past military experiences. ... It is significant, even crucial, that people learn their history so that past mistakes and catastrophes will not occur again. The study of history may seem like a waste of time, but in reality it focuses on the challenges of the present.