Looking back for the way forward


The here-and-now emphasis by the present generation makes it difficult to convince many of our youth that not only is history not obsolete, it can also be a guide to our future.

ABOUT a week ago, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced at the Umno general assembly that History would be made a must-pass SPM subject in 2013 and that it would also be a core subject in primary school starting 2014.

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