Poll: History, an important subject?

[NotAPie]

I've been thinking about this for a while now.
I don't see a point in History class and all that, I do all my work in there but seriously, what benefit will it have when I become a doctor? I don't see why I HAVE to learn this. It hardly seems like a important subject. My teachers never give me a straight answer on why its so important, most of them just said "history repeats itself" and then blew me off when I was about to say something else.
I don't mean history as a whole, for example, I'm becoming a doctor, why do I need to learn history that is not related to anything medical?

Anyway the question is, Is History a useless subject? If not can you explain why?

Edit:
Ah, I forgot to add something in my original statement.
Yes we have to learn about major events, but I don't see why I have to learn about stuff happening around that major event.
Edit2:
Just changed the title, there should not be any reason to vote an undesired answer by accident now.

 

[RebelRising]

It's one of the most important subjects there are. Without it, you will have a legendarily limited scope on culture, politics, technology, religion, and so forth. Many of my viewpoints on contemporary issues are coloured by how things in the past have turned out. It's like one huge, epic story with characters, morals, themes, motifs, and plot twists.

To me, history is incredibly important; without understanding it, nothing in the present makes much sense. History provides that context for everything that has led to where humans are now.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

It's not completely useless, depending on the teacher and if your the kinda guy who watches history and discovery Chanels most of the day, it can be good to learn about history, if only to give some meager enjoyment to going to school.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.

 

[thiosk]

Hell yeah its useless. We all know that Jesus Christ Lincoln chopped down his father's cherry tree and landed on the moon, why do we need to learn about it?

Also, wouldn't it be nice if we could like, i don't know, make people do work for no pay, but we feed them and stuff? Its way less work than having to like, hire and fire people. We could trade good ones for money one time, and then its all just upkeep!

Also, Jews, huh? Annoying! I wonder if anyone thought about making some camps for them to live in by themselves.

 

[NotAPie]

It's not completely useless, depending on the teacher and if your the kinda guy who watches history and discovery Chanels most of the day, it can be good to learn about history, if only to give some meager enjoyment to going to school.

You know what's funny?
I am the kinda guy that watches history channel and the discovery channel, but recently I have been learning about indians or something and it just bugged me how, I was learning about something that in my opinion, does not matter.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Hell yeah its useless. We all know that Jesus Christ Lincoln chopped down his father's cherry tree and landed on the moon, why do we need to learn about it?

Also, wouldn't it be nice if we could like, i don't know, make people do work for no pay, but we feed them and stuff? We could trade good ones for money!

Also, Jews, huh? Annoying! I wonder if anyone thought about making some camps for them to live in by themselves.

Ah, it was George Washinton and the cherry tree...

 

[Numb1lp]

Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.

I guess you beat me to the punch... But yeah, this really is as true as it gets.

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

Unless you want to be ignorant, no.

 

[IrishBerserker]

I didn't think history was boring. I really liked it, probably 'cause I always got some pretty cool teachers and I loved learning about it.

I really don't think its a useless subject. The past helps use learn about our species. for example: where we come from, how we've gotten to where we are today and so on. Its actually really interesting if you can get into it

But if you don't like it then c'est la vie. To each his own, right.

 

[sagonas123]

An important subject? I don't thinks so...
But, it is very interesting, and in a world full of idiots, it's nice to have some knowledge, such as of the past.

 

[thiosk]

Hell yeah its useless. We all know that Jesus Christ Lincoln chopped down his father's cherry tree and landed on the moon, why do we need to learn about it?

Also, wouldn't it be nice if we could like, i don't know, make people do work for no pay, but we feed them and stuff? We could trade good ones for money!

Also, Jews, huh? Annoying! I wonder if anyone thought about making some camps for them to live in by themselves.

Ah, it was George Washinton and the cherry tree...

psh. as if. George Washington invented peanut butter and the automobile, and was the King of Persia.

 

[Spaghetti]

It's a very important subject! (although my opinion will be slightly biased as I intend to work for a Phd in History...)

It give's you an idea about where you came from. EVERYTHING had to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is in the past (history!). For example, if you want to make a great Video game, you look to the games of the past to see what was good and what wasn't. When you write a story, you can look to the past for inspiration.

History is who we are, there's no point brushing it off as nonsense as who you are today was created by what people did in the past.

Also, the subject itself is important. By studying history, you pick up analytical skills that you can't really pick up in other subjects. You learn how to research topics and analyse written information and turn it into an argument. Because of this, someone with a History degree is highly attractive to employers because they will have picked up skills that someone taking English or Law will not have gained.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Hell yeah its useless. We all know that Jesus Christ Lincoln chopped down his father's cherry tree and landed on the moon, why do we need to learn about it?

Also, wouldn't it be nice if we could like, i don't know, make people do work for no pay, but we feed them and stuff? We could trade good ones for money!

Also, Jews, huh? Annoying! I wonder if anyone thought about making some camps for them to live in by themselves.

Ah, it was George Washinton and the cherry tree...

psh. as if. George Washington invented peanut butter and the automobile, and was the King of Persia.

Yes, oh course, silly of me to forget...

 

[quiet_samurai]

I've been thinking about this for a while now.
I don't see a point in History class and all that, yeah its boring, I do all my work in there but seriously, what benefit will it have when I become a doctor? I don't see why I HAVE to learn this. It hardly seems like a important subject. My teachers never give me a straight answer on why its so important, most of them just said "history repeats itself" and then blew me off when I was about to say something else.

Anyway the question is, Is History a useless subject? If not can you explain why?

Taht's a very true statement they give you. Also if we didn't study and learn history there would be no doctors, at least not by today's standards. Where do you think doctors get the knowledge they have today? The trial and errors of past doctors. How would we be what we are today without the accumulation of knowledge we have gained for the past 5000 years or so? No history = no technological advancement. No history = no lessons of previous mistakes. No history = a truly ignorant society indeed.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.

I guess you beat me to the punch... But yeah, this really is as true as it gets.

as cliche as that saying is, it is still very true.

 

[NotAPie]

I've been thinking about this for a while now.
I don't see a point in History class and all that, yeah its boring, I do all my work in there but seriously, what benefit will it have when I become a doctor? I don't see why I HAVE to learn this. It hardly seems like a important subject. My teachers never give me a straight answer on why its so important, most of them just said "history repeats itself" and then blew me off when I was about to say something else.

Anyway the question is, Is History a useless subject? If not can you explain why?

Taht's a very true statement they give you. Also if we didn't study and learn history there would be no doctors, at least not by today's standards. Where do you think doctors get the knowledge they have today? The trial and errors of past doctors. How would we be what we are today without the accumulation of knowledge we have gained for the past 5000 years or so? No history = no technological advancement. No history = no lessons of previous mistakes. No history = a truly ignorant society indeed.

This is by far the best answer anyone has given me.
It's about damn time too.

 

[Internet Kraken]

It's incredibly important, no matter who you are. It is important that we learn about both the mistakes and the achievements of people in the past. Otherwise hatred and prejudice that had once been on the decline could rise up again.

Plus if you wanted to be a doctor, wouldn't it be important to know about Hippocrates?

 

[Random Argument Man]

Le snip

I don't see the point in advance physics or chemistry.

However, History is the study of the past. Your science have history even if you like it or not. There was a reason to do a research. Today, this research have been done. History comes in when someone ask "How did we do it?", "Why did we do it?" and "What happened after we did it?".

In the case of medicine, it's a bit necessary to be open minded to history. After all, some diseases that happened in the past can pop up in your face. I'm actually reading a book on the black plague. You could also found some treatment or test methods that belonged in the past. When you do a drug trial and you compare your new data with the old one, you're doing history.

I also learned how to present a research with some history classes. There's quite a lot of method on how to present your stuff.

EDIT: If you want to make it a little more interesting, try to imagine every event the teacher tells you. Make it a movie. An interesting movie. It work for me. I always learn a little bit more with that.