One aspect of why disinterest and ignorance in and of history limits personal and social growth is because studying the history of an other time and people is little less than seeing your self and your society in a mirror – be that mirror cracked, with askew pieces and missing pieces, smudges…. it still would allow self- and social-knowledge.
But then… One was wish to wake up.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 