IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY    1400W

HISTORY, PHILIPPINES, HISTORIAN

Introduction

History is the science whose business is to study events not accessible to our observations, and to study these events inferentially (Philippine Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 1993). History is not merely the records of past events: it is the record of what one’s age find worthy of note in another. History as a narrative (which of written, visual, oral or a combination of all these) about past events that has a meaning to a certain group of people in a given time and place (Ambeth Ocampo).

History is the study of human achievement. The past is intelligent to us only in the light of the present and the present can be fully understood in the light of the past (Carr 1972).

The word History is taken from the Greek word historian, which means learning by investigation or inquiry. History traces the progress and development of man’s civilization from the ancient to the