Okay, that music in the background was starting to become quite annoying actually. Meh, couldn't he turn it off before Nancy freaked out completely? Apparently not. And what were their Runes and Care of Magical Creatures professors doing here?? Weird, very weird. Quotes about history? Hesitantly raising her hand Nancy said, "Uhm...wasn't there this woman called...uhm...Pearl Buck? Anyways, she said If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday., right?" At least that's what she had heard.

"'Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.' - By Marcus Aelius Aurelius, I like that one." Miles beamed.

He nodded at the professor's comment, you could overdue it on histroy a bit.

Qaz raised her hand and offered, 'David Ben Gurion said that Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs....which leads me to what I think is the most profound, but I don't know who said it.....History is written by the winners.'

"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Wystan Hugh Auden

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
Sir Francis Bacon

Past and to come seem best; things present worst."
-- Mary Bertone
"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Kait raised her hand again and recited of a quote that had been one of her father's favourites, he'd said it so many times she had it remembered. "Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance." She said the last part of the quote slower than the last, making sure she got the wording right from what she remembered from growing up. She realized she didn't say who had said the quote so she raised her hand again and said, "It was M. I. Abramowitz who said that"

Elizabeth raised her hand again. "Karl Marx said 'The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.' And he also said 'History is the judge;-its executioner, the proletariat.' And Eisenhower said 'The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice.'"

Juniper's hand was in the air again. "Cicero said 'Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child,'" Juniper said. "He also said, 'History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.'"

Set raised his hand and said repeated a famous histroy quote, "History: It's being made right now!". Set said. "I means that what we do know, becomes histroy in like one second, because it happend in the past."

Ethan watched as the pretty cat that had shown up in his last class appeared once again. "Who's... cat is this?"

"A rebuke to the present. That ties in well with the answers you all gave to the last question." Ethan nodded and paused to listen to her thoughts, "I like hearing opinons and I agree with you on that one. I don't think looking back is what distorts; its more the method of looking that provides distortion. So look right, right?"

"Ah and I believe there is a third type too." Ethan noted, "Possibly more. But it is a good quote, Allie."

Truebridge slid his glasses up onto his head, "This is one of my favourites. The study of questions! History is like philosophy except there are more facts to support speculation." He paused and looked around, "You can all quote me on that."

"True enough. The key is using the lessons you learned from the past, in your present, to shape your future." Truebridge noted, with a straight face and a little wink.

"Very true. That applies quite well to Wizarding history."

"Maya Angelou has several apt quotes regarding History. Ethan agreed.

"Those are good ones." Zan nodded, "Thank you, Vanessa."

"In other words; history repeats." Ethan clarified.

"That is a very true quote. Almost a fact really."

"Sir Francis Bacon was right about that. I am fairly wise." Ethan agreed deadpan.

"Philosophy. Like I said." Ethan noted with a nod of conviction.

Hmm. Zan couldn't quite hear the music over the deafening din of students thinking. He flicked his wand and turned it up slightly. "Yes that is a good quote. Perhaps it applies quite nicely to contemporary events here at Hogwarts?"

"I like it too." Ethan agreed again.

"Those are interesting ones, Qaz." Zan noted.

"Ah, thank you."

"Thank you. A good lesson in that one indeed." Truebridge responded gravely.

"Thank you Elizabeth."

"Those are some of my favourites, Juniper."

"So it does." Ethan agreed.

Ruby raised her hand and said "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds Francis Bacon an English lawyer and philosopher"

Alessia looked around. She wanted to hear her favorite song... Macavity... it was her favorite song. He wouldn't notice if she just did it nonverbally... so she flicked her wand and the needle on the grammaphone dragged to the right song making such a loud scratching noise, Alessia couldn't help but laugh... "Sorry, Professor Truebridge... I... couldn't help myself."

Chris raised his hand and said "I know one! 'To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justicary, should be free of all pre-ocupation of interest, or vanity. Bye Napleon Bonaparte."

Zan looked at Professor Lupa in surprise as the music changed, her laugh setting him a bit off balance. "No concern." He waved it off and hummed along with the song for a bit to illustrate that he didn't mind at all.

Oh.

Class.

Yeah.

Truebridge cleared his throat, "So; where do we get history from anyway?"

Allie didn’t know what made her do it, but she found herself throwing her hands up in there and exclaiming, “There you are Minky! I’ve been looking everywhere for you!”
She didn’t know if that cat’s real owner was in the class or not, which would be quite embarrassing, now that she thought about it. Maybe she shouldn’t have said anything. Oh well, too late now, might as well go along with it.
“She’s mine, Professor. I keep on losing her, I’m sorry. But she does seem to really like your class.” She said with a smile.

"Ohh and thank you, sir. But what is the third type?" she asked.

Kaitlynn's hand went up in the air again as she answered the Professor's question, "It comes from our past, all the events that have happened make up what call history, but at one point it was just every day stuff to those who were in the present of that time." She let her hand fall and listened to what the other students had to say.

Set raised his hand spat as if he had swallowed the textbook, "The word history comes from Greek ἱστορία (historia), from the Proto-Indo-European *wid-tor-, from the root *weid-, "to know, to see". This root is also present in the English words wit, wise, wisdom, vision, and idea, in the Sanskrit word veda, and in the Slavic word videti and vedati, as well as others. (The asterisk before a word indicates that it is a hypothetical construction, not an attested form.)" Set finished taking in a deep breath.

"Sir. Didn't people from the past like write down things that happened. Like records and such. And we find out what happened from those documents?" Vanessa thought outloud with her hand raised.

Shana thought and raised her hand We got it from the past people that lived in the past made history and we are making history right now for people in the future. Shana put down her hand and smiled at the professor.

Ethan blinked a few times and nodded slowly, "Alright Allie. I don't mind pets in class as long as they don't hurt anyone. Though... minky? Is a sweet one." Ethan extended his hand to the cat, "The third type? Why, the ones who learn from it of course."

Keefer stuck both hands into the air, as was his usual custom. "We get history from books, mostly. But it can be passed down orally as well. Also, to some degree, the earth itself can tell us history. Archaeologists have uncovered lots of things that help us know about the past. Geologists have learned things from rock strata as well."

Chris raised his hand "History is everything that has happened in the past and has been kept recoreded." he smiled

Elizabeth looked over as the Professor brought attention to a cat that had wandered into class, almost expecting to see Bella. But it wasn't, so she shrugged, before her head snapped around as the Runes professor changed the song playing on the gramophone. That song certainly sounded familiar to her. Since she had been singing it a while back to her kneazle.

Then she raised her hand again. "We get history from all around us. Whether it be from experiences we have personally had, or things we've heard about from others. Family, friends, professors . . . books. "

Alessia recognized the cat. For crying out loud Ili she thought to herself. She wasn't Miss Johnson's... "Miss Johnson, I don't believe she's your minky... though I may be wrong... She's... uhmmm mine..." Nevermind her alergy to felines... Really, a wolf with a cat. "Uhmmm" she stood and went, "KstKst..." she made the noise, but it sounded awful... "Uhmm, Come here little..." she couldn't call her Iliana! Hmmmm "Come here TinkerbellPrincessBuns..." She giggled internally thinking of what Ili would think of the name, but really... all Ili needed was to be given to a student!

Cela raised her hand, "The... past?"

William put his hand into the air, "We get history from the everyday things we do. The good, and the bad things. It all depends on who's there to write it down." He replied, grinning happily. Oh yes he was in a very good mood.