I love history. History teaches us not to repeat someone has committed an error. But there is a historical science, as it is the essence of historical knowledge, what it is - that's the questions that people at least a little different from each other, would have answered differently.
The history of the human need for self-knowledge. It is considered that it is important to know the man himself, and by the knowledge of himself understood not only the knowledge of a man of his personal characteristics, how it differs from other people, but also their knowledge of his human nature. Self-knowledge means, firstly, knowledge of the essence of man in general, and secondly, the knowledge of the type of person to whom you belong, and, thirdly, the knowledge of what exactly you are and no one else. Self-knowledge is the knowledge that you are able to do, and since no one can know this without trying to act, the only clue to the answer to the question of what a person can do, lies in his past actions. That's why it's so important to know history, especially the history of the fatherland. The value of history this is the thanks to her, we learn that the man did, and thus - what it represents.