Besides the fact that History 103 meets a three-credit requirement, why are you taking a history class? I recognize this is a dangerous question. Some students may, after searching their gray matter, respond “good question” and bolt to the registrar’s office to withdraw and add a more “applicable” class. Others, I hope, might ponder the deeper meaning, lurking behind the question, by asking themselves “what value does history have for me as an individual and society as a whole?” Below are a number of quotations by writers, teachers, and intellectuals that argue for and against the value and importance of history. After reading and pondering others’ opinions, write a one or two page double-spaced paper on your feelings towards the past. Ask family members for their opinions, scan works of literature, and look at society around you to help formulate your opinion. Cite your resources using whatever footnote or endnote style you are comfortable with.
• “How will we know it’s us without our past?” Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
• “One of the more effective ways of inhabiting the present is to learn how the past made it what it is.” Edward Mendelson
• “If our youth have no hope for the future, this is in great part because we have left them ignorant of their past: If young people feel no connection to anything…their dislocation is a measure of our failure, not theirs. We have failed to provide them with a culture that claims to explain the world or (that) links the experience of one generation to those that came before and to those that will follow.” Christopher Lasch
Negative views:
• “The past is useless. That explains why it is the past.” Wright Morris
• “The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time…to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us; yet we heap up all these old shells, out of which human life has long emerged, casting them off forever. I do not see how future ages are to stagger under all this dead weight, with the additions that will continually be made to it.” Anthony Brandt
• “The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend to remember.” Harold Pinter
As part of the assignment, tell me about yourself. A poet/philosopher named Fontaine once said: “A man is three people: who he thinks he is, what others thinks he is, and who he really is.” Who are you? What is your major, your historical interests, your hobbies. What do you hope to achieve from this class?
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