I was just having a conversation with a friend and we were joking about how students can be very attentive with Biology subject especially when it gets to topics like "Reproduction". The thought came to mind as I remember students also enjoy learning History as it was about past events and we did asked a lot of questions to know better what really happened.
How did that change? Even the school I teach in now, they don't take history classes and that means, there are less teachers or students who know much about what has happened in their country aside what they hear people talk about randomly.
During my high school days, being a student was amazing as we would go home talking about some interesting history we learnt reminding even our parents at home what they might have forgotten but most of the times, we would learn more from them as some of them were more grounded in past events or stories told to them.
Thinking about how History is being disregarded now, I fear that the future will be dumbed down and I mean, mistakes will be repeated or worse, lessons will not be learnt over time causing incidents we fear to happen to actually happen.
If schools should disregard history classes, there are a lot of things in the future we would worry for and I'll share some...
It's surprising that some basic history like why Nigeria is called Nigeria, who was the first president and which country colonized our country, some students do not know about this. There are many knowledge that can be learned from studying history.
One of the knowledge I gained from learning history in school years ago was learning about the different cultural identities and heritage, how the diversity is evolving over time. I see a future that would forget the origin and even neglect our cultural diversities if history is disregarded.
Increased risk of repeating historical mistakes like wars, oppression and injustice would be more likely as the people have forgotten the result of these things in the past. There would be diminished critical thinking, morals and empathy towards understanding diverse perspectives.
History have taught and will teach a lot about successes and failures in the past, something everyone who wants to grow in the future would need as a guide. There were stories about the first ever plane creation, camera invention and other achievements that made great history.
I remember how young students dream of inventing their own first technologies, be the first individual to take up an action and even make a better presidential rule, all inspiration came from learning about those who were there before and made an impact, history taught them.
Even science focuses, history is in every subject as a topic to bring to light how everything began and knowing a start is always a good way to find a better process and make a good end. So it's important that schools understand the importance of teaching History to their students.
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