THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY AND MUSEOLOGY IN EDUCATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Cover Image

ULOGA HISTORIJE I MUZEOLOGIJE U OBRAZOVANJU MLADIH
THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY AND MUSEOLOGY IN EDUCATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Author(s): Smajo Halilović
Subject(s): History, Education, Jewish studies, Museology & Heritage Studies, History of Judaism, History of the Holocaust
Published by: JU Muzej Sarajeva
Keywords: history; museums; teaching; schools; textbook; manipulation; holocaust; Jews;

Summary/Abstract: We are not responsible for our past, but future history... Bosnians should not be afraid of thinking about their future, as well as they should not be obsessed with the past. World history has been written by principles of competition and doctrine of supremacy and dominancy. They would hardly find nation that would be willing to express personal history by principles of universal brotherhood, true equality and nobility of all man and women. That kind of history interpretation requires courage and understanding, characteristics of true adult and civilized people, which human race has not seen yet. Analysing history from perspective of strong and sacrificing peace powers would allow us to develop understanding of motives that stand behind aggresion and genocide, and as the most important, creating peace. The thing that detaches human race is nature and quality of our consciousness: our ability to know that we love, freedom of choice, and that we know we have choice. This three human characteristics-knowledge, love and willingness-enable human beings to overgo the borders that nature has put in front of human beings.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 175-186
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian