Learning from History

The poem in Deuteronomy 32:1-9 is a reminder of what came before.

We focus on learning from history and from the ‘elders’.


George Santayana, the Spanish philosopher, was famous for his quote:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," from Reason in Common Sense, the first volume of his The Life of Reason.

It was pointed out that we can learn much from generations past but we can also learn from the children.

In Pirkei Avot Ben Zoma taught:
"Who is wise? He who learns from every man.