I so agree with this. I despair that people just don't seem to learn from history, and that may be that they don't know much history in the first place.
I think part of the problem is that for many people history is a set of fixed facts (dates, names, battles etc) and that it is often used to create a particular sense of identity at a particular moment in time. Hence the handwringing over rewriting history if you suggest there might be perspectives that haven been overlooked and which might be worth studying... this is a) quite boring to children and b) allows people to say there is no point to studying because we know what happened.
I would rather see it as the study of people than of facts. Our stories, our motivations, emotions, communities, inventions etc - good, bad and muddling along in the middle. There are lessons to be learned (though I don't think you can take exact lessons from the past because variables change and no situation is the same). We can seek to understand how we got to where we are, and how history has been used for particular ends. And it's all rather fascinating (and enhanced by new perspectives and evidence). Unfortunately a lot of people have given up on history before you get to study it along those lines.