In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive.… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things,… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
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