Chary

Word of the Day: chary /ˈCHerē/ cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something.

There is a too common tendency to regard history as a specialist subject; that is the primary mistake. For, on the contrary, history is the essential corrective to all specialisation. Viewed aright, it is the broadest of studies, embracing every aspect of life. It lays the foundation of education by showing how mankind repeats its errors and what those errors are. - Why Don't We Learn From History?, B. H. Liddell Hart