--- title: "15 Textbooks Quotes By James W. Loewen" description: "15 Textbooks quotes by James W. Loewen. Plus more from James W. Loewen and more Textbooks sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/james-w-loewen-12569_assumption_the-layout-of-textbooks-i-think-has-been_2225469.png" --- > [The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/the-layout-of-textbooks-i-think-has-been-done-with-an-assumption-that/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/james-w-loewen-12569_assumption_the-layout-of-textbooks-i-think-has-been_2225469.png) > [“history textbooks need to disabuse students of the flat-earth myth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/history-textbooks-need-to-disabuse-students-of-the-flat-earth-myth/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/james-w-loewen-12569_history_history-textbooks-need-to-disabuse-stude_1757088.png) > [Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/teachers-need-to-teach-the-subject-rather-than-to-teach-the-textbook/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/479/james-w-loewen-12569_education_teachers-need-to-teach-the-subject-rathe_439139.png) > [Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/textbooks-are-written-in-an-oracular-monotone-so-that-they-claim-to/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cef/james-w-loewen-12569_being-true_textbooks-are-written-in-an-oracular-mon_2066401.png) > [There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/there-is-no-excuse-for-these-1-152-page-textbooks/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f0/james-w-loewen-12569_excuse_there-is-no-excuse-for-these-1-152-page_2195122.png) > [Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/textbooks-pretty-much-have-no-real-drama-they-have-no-real-storyline/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/james-w-loewen-12569_drama_textbooks-pretty-much-have-no-real-drama_95607.png) > [Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/nobody-would-ever-want-to-read-a-textbook-about-the-civil-war-and/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/james-w-loewen-12569_civil-war_nobody-would-ever-want-to-read-a-textboo_594776.png) > [I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/i-think-the-first-important-thing-is-that-usually-most-textbooks-are/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/762/james-w-loewen-12569_books_i-think-the-first-important-thing-is-tha_378721.png) > [What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/what-gets-lost-in-the-textbook-is-the-overall-narrative-it-gets-lost/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/james-w-loewen-12569_boxes_what-gets-lost-in-the-textbook-is-the-ov_3141932.png) > [Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/students-will-start-finding-history-interesting-when-their-teachers/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/james-w-loewen-12569_findings_students-will-start-finding-history-inte_688397.png) > [I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/i-don-t-think-teachers-read-the-textbooks-and-i-don-t-think-adoption/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e06/james-w-loewen-12569_adoption_i-don-t-think-teachers-read-the-textbook_2524081.png) > [Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/textbooks-should-show-that-neither-morality-nor-immorality-can-simply/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c7/james-w-loewen-12569_character_textbooks-should-show-that-neither-moral_1237721.png) > [Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/unfortunately-marketing-textbooks-is-like-marketing-fishing-lures-the/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba4/james-w-loewen-12569_adopted_unfortunately-marketing-textbooks-is-lik_327200.jpg) > [Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/taking-ideas-seriously-does-not-fit-with-the-rhetorical-style-of/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/james-w-loewen-12569_constant_taking-ideas-seriously-does-not-fit-with_201113.jpg) > [So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/so-long-as-our-textbooks-hide-from-us-the-roles-that-people-of-color/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f96/james-w-loewen-12569_both-sides_so-long-as-our-textbooks-hide-from-us-th_876488.jpg) ## Other authors on Textbooks ## More by James W. Loewen > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/many-americans-have-never-owned-a-book-and-others-have-never-owned-a/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/textbooks-pretty-much-have-no-real-drama-they-have-no-real-storyline/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/taking-ideas-seriously-does-not-fit-with-the-rhetorical-style-of/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/cherishing-columbus-is-a-characteristic-of-white-history-not-american/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/i-often-suggest-in-workshops-that-if-you-have-30-students-in-your/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/unfortunately-marketing-textbooks-is-like-marketing-fishing-lures-the/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/as-a-result-of-the-sufferings-and-hard-labor-they-endured-the-indians/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/i-think-the-first-important-thing-is-that-usually-most-textbooks-are/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/teachers-need-to-teach-the-subject-rather-than-to-teach-the-textbook/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/no-matter-how-thoroughly-native-americans-acculturated-they-could-not/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/we-seem-to-feel-that-a-person-like-helen-keller-can-be-an-inspiration/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/nobody-would-ever-want-to-read-a-textbook-about-the-civil-war-and/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/students-will-start-finding-history-interesting-when-their-teachers/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/students-exit-history-textbooks-without-having-developed-the-ability/) [James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/) > [History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/history-can-be-a-weapon-and-it-can-be-used-against-you/) [James W. 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