Religion being taught in schools

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Ka-pi96 said:

Did WWII happen despite WWI? Pretty sure they never forgot that, it wasn't even 20 years before them. The guy who started #2 even thought in #1, yet #2 still happened. So no, knowing about history did not stop those wrongs being repeated.

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So how exactly does knowing history prevent the mistakes of the past being repeated?

Sometimes you can make a mistake multiple times before you learn "not to do it".

How many times will you put your hand on a hot stove surface and burned yourself for example? You will learn from a prior mistake.

Every year the world stops and pauses and remembers World War 2, it's mistakes, it's harsh realities, that doesn't mean we won't have a World War 3 though.
But after World War 2, countries have solidified alliances (I.E. Germany with the rest of Europe) so World War 3 will not be an identical repeat of World War 2.

Even the cause for World War 2 wasn't the same as World War 1, the strategies, extent, political wrangling, reasons were all different.

That Phrase is still accurate. "Those who fail to understand History are prone to repeate it."