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populace truly knew. The government wanted everyone to learn a certain
amount of history, science, math, and English. The point of that was to
contain knowledge, leaving an uneducated population who obeyed
orders without question; it was a dystopian society where everyone was
“happy”. While books contain all that and more, you must read them to
get anything from them.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,”
George Santayana (1905). This quotation resonated with me, so I have
gone about to learn about my countries past. While I believed history is
important, schools agreed with Mr. Santayana. They endeavored to
make the subject well known, so we will not repeat the horrors of the
past. History must be learned; the very foundation of society is based on
this subject. In ancient days, they used word-of-mouth to pass history
along, but when hieroglyphs were created, stone slates were used
instead. Later on, they used papyrus, due to the fact that it was easier to
pass along and transcribe onto. Books first were created to allow
generations down the line to remember what was, in the hopes that they
will be better than those prior generations. My history class taught me
about the revolution of the United States on multiple occasions; this is
the most important part of history for our country. The revolution is
literally the very existence of who we are. If it had not taken place
centuries ago, the United Sates would not exist. However, it happened.
We know this since treatises have been written with the events for us to