The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“history textbooks need to disabuse students of the flat-earth myth.” — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
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