These are questions we can never answer. As much as we can think and think and think about it, about what could have been done differently, it never can be done differently. We can never answer these what-ifs. Certainly we can learn from history. Perhaps teaching about genocide instills the value of life in many young people. People who never want to see something like that happen again. Which I would like to think, is most people.

So how much progress has been made from learning about it? Perhaps alot. Perhaps learning from it really has influenced people to strive to never see something like this happen again. Although it does still happen. If we are making progress in teaching people that genocide is wrong, that's great. I would love to think that we can learn from humankind's past mistakes. How much have we learned though? Genocide still happens. Maybe "we," the part of humanity that honestly believes that genocide is wrong, what I would hope is the larger part of humanity, have learned. Or maybe there was nothing there to learn in the first place as we were born with a conscience and raised in an environment that kept us from ever thinking that it might be okay to discriminate against any group.

But if genocide still occurs, how much progress has been made? This is all relative. You might say alot of progress has been made because people have been educated about it. You might say no progress has been made because this education has failed to reach people that still commit it. I might say something entirely different.