The Importance of Learning History

Timelines & charts,

Lessons & hearts,

Words & art—

The modes of the past.

With infant minds,

We study in frivolity.

Yet with age,

We come to see:

Those “rudimentary” lessons

Of the past

Are essential for our future.

To look back is to look forward,

Some will say.

Yes, remembrance

Forms us into creatures

Of wisdom.

History is a great teacher.