I am really concern too over the reluctance of our students to take history at the secondary level and at higher institutions. I wish our students may come to know how a historian thinks about history the way a scientist thinks about science or how a linguist thinks about language. Courses attended by history students or teachers at UBD will help them to find out how children learn about history, and expand their thinking. Students will reap benefits from such courses because this will help them to acquire history knowledge, teaching technique and children learning skills.
History helps students to think how to think and to learn how to learn .
Let me state that the most important single force behind this redefinition of school history was that students studying history ought to do much more than collect, remember and regurgitate information. This had led teachers to look for ways in which history could be given a more rigorous structure, something that might provide a basis for progression in the student s understanding and thinking in history, as opposed to the aggregation of historical facts, or the memorising of accounts. Students were to do history not merely to receive it. Students who have had the opportunity to analyse historical information had the opportunity to be mindful, to understand differences between learning how to reason with contents. To help students understand the present in the context of the past.