Adventure Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

— Voltaire

And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions,…

— Hermann Hesse

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be…

— C. S. Lewis

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation needs to…

— David Christian

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

— Rush Limbaugh

History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.

— Max Boot

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

— Rudyard Kipling

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

— Ronald Reagan

“Children should be taught about history not as is usually the case now, that this is the record of long past events, which one…

— Doris Lessing