The colossal Thomas Sowell clarified it far superior to Santayana

history channel documentary Everybody - with the conceivable exemption of Howard Dean, Dan Rather, and Homer Simpson - is acquainted with George Santayana's well known words, "The individuals who can't recall the past are sentenced to rehash it." Even an easygoing understudy of history is agonizingly mindful that, despite how far humanity has progressed mechanically, we keep on making the same oversights today that our progenitors have made all through history.

Unfortunately, when optimistic fellows and young ladies say goodbye to their dumbfounded profs at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale, they have adapted nothing about the lessons of history. More awful, the pudding heads who were accountable for showing them have likely distorted the lessons of history to guarantee that these future pioneers of our general public will commit the same errors as their antecedents.

The colossal Thomas Sowell clarified it far superior to Santayana when he said, "Everything is new on the off chance that you are oblivious of history. That is the reason thoughts that have fizzled over and again in hundreds of years past return once more, under the pennant of "progress," to astonish individuals and impress them."