能力是指人们能胜任某项任务的主观条件,常指完成一项活动的本领。培养学生的能力,是中学历史教学的主要任务之一。人的能力一般可分为组织能力和实践能力,也就是学习知识的能力和运用知识的能力。在历史教学中,培养学生运用知识的能力,就是培养学生运用历史唯物主义的基本观点观察问题和分析问题的能力;联系实际进行自我教育 Competence is the subjective condition that people can perform a task, often referring to the ability to complete an activity. The cultivation of students' abilities is one of the main tasks of history teaching in secondary schools. Human ability can be generally divided into organizational and practical ability, that is, the ability to learn knowledge and use of knowledge. In history teaching, cultivating students 'abilities to use knowledge means cultivating students' abilities of observing and analyzing problems from the basic point of view of historical materialism;