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In primary school, I used to be very inconsistent in handing up work. That changed when I flunked my P5 exams and I have been getting good results since.

Learning from past successes and failures Understanding and respecting each other
Understanding change and how our society came to be

In stories of successes, we can look up to the heroes as role models. From failures, we know what mistakes we should avoid. We can know better about the conditions long ago and have more respect for people who lived long ago.

Thomas Edison learnt from his own mistakes to invent one of the most important thing in our daily life- the light bulb.

Without learning from mistakes we will never get things right.

When there is no respect among people, there cannot be any peace.

I had a classmate who could not walk properly. I thought he looked funny until the day I was informed that he had broken his leg as an infant.
I am a Korean who has been living in Singapore for 7 years. When I realized that somewhen in the future I must return to Korea, I realized I should start learning Korean again.

All the things around us originated from earlier ideas and objects. By learning history we can know more about them.

It is important for us to know our origins and how we came to be.

Developing our critical skills

In the course of piecing back pieces of history for an answer, we can develop critical skills.

Critical skills are very important for us in life.

In doing this history homework on a computer with internet connection, I learnt the important skill of resisting temptation.