Anxious Quote by Douglas Hurd

Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a better grasp…

— Tony Robinson

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops…

— Simon Schama

We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem…

— David McCullough

“History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.”

— Will & Ariel durant

Almost all education has a political motive.

— Bertrand Russell

Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians…

— David Almond

It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians…

— David Almond

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

— Arthur Koestler

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric…

— Jonathan Kozol

I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that…

— Antony Beevor

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about…

— Dana Goldstein