The importance of history

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Just saw this on BBC news:

History lessons stymied in Lebanon
[url:2w89w9ox]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7988399.stm[/url]

"It's a real problem," says Ohaness Goktchian, professor of political science at the American University in Beirut.

"We are raising another generation of children who identify themselves with their communities and not their nation.

"History is what unites people, without history we can't have unity."