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Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. Do you agree or disagree? There has always been some sort of curiosity among the human beings about past times. a lot of endeavors have been made in order to reveal the secrets of past times. But what is the reason of this curiosity? Why people are always wondering about their ancients? why all of us like listening to our grandparents stories about past times? What is it in past times that makes it such alluring for human beings? there are different opinions covering this issue. I would like to put them in the following way. First, some people acclaim that there are many lessons in the lifestyle of our ancestors. There is a proverb in my language which supports this idea; “The history is the teacher of human beings”. In this idea the reason of searching past times is that people hope to find out the secrets of that time and consequently, learn lessons from them. Furthermore, they believe that there are numerous similarities in our life and the people of past times. We are facing a lot of situations which these people had experimented them before. Accordingly with finding out these similarities we are able to improve our way of living. This group acclaim that the linking between us and past time is very powerful and we cannot neglect it. On the other hand, some may assert that the conditions of our time is different from the past, hence everything would have a different style for us. In the other words, it is not beneficial to learn about the past. This group of people believes that the reason of curiosity about past times is the desire of human beings about knowing stuffs that have been discovered from them. Since the life style of people, the food, the clothes and everything about past times are not clear to people of our time, they try to figure out how would have these things been like in the past. As a result, according to the idea of this group of people learning about past is just wasting the time. Finally, I assert that there is no harm in learning new things, and every single thing that you learn could help you in some way. Thus, taking into account all aforementioned factors, I believe that learning about past could be beneficial for us. It would help us in different situations of our life. In addition,