How to Achieve Perpetual Childhood

Why study history? There are many reasons. One reason is that we are commanded to study history-- "remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations" (Deut 32:7). Here is another reason posed by one of the reformers of the sixteenth century - it keeps us from "perpetual childhood" and "permanent obscurity."

"Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay a permanent obscurity and darkness."

--Philip Melancthon (1497–1560)