Others want something educational, drawing lessons for the future.
The Prussians learned profitable lessons for the future from their mistakes in this test of strength.
We look to the executive to learn the appropriate lessons for the future.
The answers I got right built confidence; the ones I did not know became lessons for the future.
The emergence of these Net tools and practices provides lessons for the future of official emergency communication systems.
The committee's job, he said, was to "write the narrative in order to learn the lessons for the future".
The system that collapsed two decades ago, with all its lessons for the future, both negative and positive, is history.
They see electric cars as an interesting but failed experiment that taught valuable lessons for the future.
But, for those of a nervous disposition, the tying of an ancient greenhouse warming to an ancient mass extinction might suggest lessons for the future.
Legislators have more complex agendas — to learn what happened, to draw lessons for the future, and (most often) to take partisan advantage of adversaries.
"Lessons for the future should be learned, given that seismic reforms will always require greater planning and lead-in times," he said.
