What's more important: the past or the future?

I personally think that the past is more important because it influences your future. Without a past you can’t possibly have a future. You need to have something in life before you can build on that anyfurther. For example if you don’t have a job you can’t get promotion, and if   you don’t have a boyfriend you won’t get married. However, your future will also become the past later on so that’s important as well. You can’t change the past and you never know what will happen in the future. Some people might say it’s better to focus on the future and make the best out of it and try to achieve your goals but you can’t do that without a past. I think people should learn from good and bad things in the past. 

Why are we taught history in primary/high school? We need to know our past to maybe prevent or know what lies ahead of us. We are taught about world wars, monarchies, democracies and much more. If we wouldn’t know about this there might start another war soon because we haven’t learned from mistakes in the past, or we still wouldn’t have learned from different types of kingdoms. In one sentence: if we don’t learn about our past our future is doomed.