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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