Describe something you learned outside of school, how you learned it, and discuss its importance in your life. It might involve school, home, or some other aspect of your life that you remember. It might be a single moment of crisis or a more extended situation. Whatever you choose, let it be something that seemed of considerable importance to you at the time. Discuss it, and then put it in perspective through mature reflection.
History repeats itself.
Turner A famous maxim says that those who fail to remember and learn from the events of history economic failures, wars, injustices, strife are doomed to repeat them. By learning from historical events, by listening to the message of history, a nation or people can avoid repeating the errors of the past. Identify one such significant past event, discuss its effects and explain why we should remember it. My comments, meanwhile, are in the brackets. It consists of anticipating the teacher's next point, summarizing what has been said, questioning in silence the accuracy or importance of what is being taught, putting the teacher's thoughts into one's own words, and trying to discern the test or examination questions that will be formed from this material.