American Quote by David Christian

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history…

— David Christian

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school…

— Femi Kuti

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history…

— Miles Davis

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who…

— Anonymous

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

— Maya Angelou

“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as history, not…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political or partisan…

— Linda Colley

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book.…

— Maya Angelou

I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and…

— Robert Christgau

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter…

— Ruby Bridges

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe,…

— Russell Baker

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it…

— Lisa Delpit