Why Study the Industrial Revolution?
Why this might be a simple question for college history majors to answer, but it has the opposite affect on those non-history majors out there. Students will ponder on why they need to study history and will in particular question why they should learn about industrialization, an event that began in a country thousands of miles across the Atlantic Sea. It is my simple duty as a history teacher to answer in a simplistic manner with: “Students must study industrialization because the logistics surrounding industrialization in England and later here in the U.S have impacted each individual’s upbringing in life.”
Most of us take for granted just want we have. Students, for example, do not think about the chair that they sit in everyday in class, or about the amount of power that it takes to run a single classroom. It is important to understand that without looking back at how inventions were created and without examining how scientific and technological changes have impacted our lives that we would all be without our iphones, ipods, and computers. The discovery of natural resources and an industrial economy have all shaped the way that we live today and they way that we will live tomorrow. Knowledge of morals is gained through analyzing what took place in the past. Many questions will be raised, but as a teacher I will find an answer to all questions leading back to the importance of history.
Why this might be a simple question for college history majors to answer, but it has the opposite affect on those non-history majors out there. Students will ponder on why they need to study history and will in particular question why they should learn about industrialization, an event that began in a country thousands of miles across the Atlantic Sea. It is my simple duty as a history teacher to answer in a simplistic manner with: “Students must study industrialization because the logistics surrounding industrialization in England and later here in the U.S have impacted each individual’s upbringing in life.”
Most of us take for granted just want we have. Students, for example, do not think about the chair that they sit in everyday in class, or about the amount of power that it takes to run a single classroom. It is important to understand that without looking back at how inventions were created and without examining how scientific and technological changes have impacted our lives that we would all be without our iphones, ipods, and computers. The discovery of natural resources and an industrial economy have all shaped the way that we live today and they way that we will live tomorrow. Knowledge of morals is gained through analyzing what took place in the past. Many questions will be raised, but as a teacher I will find an answer to all questions leading back to the importance of history.