Some believe that history has little to teach us about today while others think that the study of the past helps us to understand the present. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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Learning from the historical time makes people have different opinions, some think they can learn a bit from it about these days,
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others believe history teaches them to realize the present situation. From my point of view, we can adapt the past knowledge to invent the new thing to use
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. On the one hand, some people who think they can not study about
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from former said, some information in the past is not updated,
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using it to learn about these days is not appropriate. Teaching
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nowadays,
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, involves many technologies
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as using the internet to search for information
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and having an online course. If they learn from the previous time, it will not be up to date. Because it uses only textbooks and a blackboard to teach.
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, others argue that it helps them to understand the situation
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. Some events in the past teach them to do not to fail again.
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, the Tom Yum Kung crisis which
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in 1999 in Thailand made a large number of citizens go bankrupt. From
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result, the Thai government had a more strict policy regarding the economy. It represents how the administration learns from the failure in the previous. From my perspective, I believe we can learn from history to adapt
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past knowledge in order to invent new things. Namely, formerly, we had a glider
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could travel by air. From
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innovation, we can learn and develop it to be a plane these days. In conclusion, some can gain little learning from history about the present because some info in the previous time is not updated,
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others disagree with it because they believe the past helps them to recognize the situation
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. I consider that we can acquire knowledge from the past to improve it to be a new invention.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • valuable lessons
  • insights
  • root causes
  • current problems
  • past mistakes
  • repeating
  • generations
  • informed decisions
  • irrelevant
  • unique
  • contemporary solutions
  • technological advancements
  • thorough understanding
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