Learning the Lessons of History?
Posted in Miscellaneous by John E. Pannell on December 24th, 2006 at 12:19 am “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
– George Santayana
Here’s another holiday time fluff post…
I’m not a huge fan of YouTube. There’s just so much garbage there one has to wade through before on finds anything worth watching. However, someone else put me on to this video.
Do we really learn the lessons of history?
That’s the question some televsion follks from Australia wanted to learn. The results turn out to be rather surprising. It seems some folks still fall for a trick that’s over 2000 years old. Check it out at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3SfNANtig
Some of these folks really should be on to something like this!
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
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