“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” Romans 15:4
Most people look at history as something boring and irrelevant to our day. I look at reading history books as a door to the past. What better way to learn about the world around us then stepping back into the centuries and seeing how other people lived.
Another great reason to enjoy history is so we can learn from the past. Our ancestors were normal people like us and they had trials, made mistakes and learned along the way. We can take what they went through to learn for our age today.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
This sentence is a quote by George Santayana, an American philosopher (1863-1952), How true this is when we think about the children of Israel who time after time forgot the most recent of their history. They repeated and repeated the mistakes of their forefathers.
How can we NOT repeat the mistakes of our forefather. We can look to history and learn from it. We can also then compare all they did to the Bible and make sure what we are doing line up to the Word of God.
Teaching history doesn’t have to be dry or boring. It doesn’t have to be solely textbooks either. We can teach our children through many methods including having a movie day. Pop some popcorn and grab a pillow. Have the children pick from this list of films and learn some history today!
Make it exciting for your children and they will grow up loving history. My dad, a world history professor, used to make a game out of learning dates. We loved to “test him” on dates. I look back now and realize that maybe that was HIS way of teaching US important dates in history. We’d throw out a date and he’d tell us what was happening around the world. We loved trying to stump him. However, I still remember 1066 was the year of the Battle of Hastings (British history). I learned via textbooks in school but I remember most the dates my dad talked to us about, the movies we watched and the books we read!
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