Is learning about the past useful? Nowadays, someone holds the opinion that learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present This statement is radically wrong On the contrary, people living in the present can learn no more from anywhere else than from the past The most valuable things one should learn from the history is politics, and this is why so many statesmen are familiar with history Our society ran and is running in exactly the same way Those events, such as great depression, financial crisis, and warfare, will show up just as they did before Recalling the history, one can find experience as well as lessons, from which one can tell right countermeasures from wrong ones Actually, history is the most vivid textbook; from nowhere other than history can a statesman living in the present learn more about how to handle Not merely for the statesmen is the information from the past useful As an ordinary individual, one can also learn many from the past Since ones childhood, he/she should have heard about a lot of anecdotes of celebrities These interesting stories infused various characteristics, virtue, integrity, and courage, into the bottom of ones heart These stories are much more lively than just interpretations There might also be such stories in our daily life, but to a child, an interesting story happened on a celebrity always seems more convincible It is for these reasons that people study history History is the best candidate that can show us right and wrong, true and false, good and bad Learn from the past, one can learn more than he has expected