It was a way to show the reason why students do not know the past. Saying that history is foolish Ford declares itself an eternal teenager. He says that only an immature person can be incapable of imagining the past and not even being curious about it. But also to say that history is silly, you are right, because why know what happened in the past? It has no utility or profitability. Many of our ancestors have been left with bad qualifiers, for example, subversive, revolutionary, inopportune, among others.
