The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“When bad news is riding high and despair in fashion, when loud mouths and corruption seem to own center stage, when some… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“We have to do a far better job of teaching our teachers. The great teachers—the teachers who influence you, who change your… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share
America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal… — David McCullough Copy Share
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a… — David McCullough Copy Share
