Education Quote by Heath White

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

— W. H. Auden

“History is studied. Lessons are learned from it.”

— jhinang

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

— Simon Schama

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

“connections. For instance, the National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) suggests that students engage in the deepest “historical thinking” when they consider…

— Sarah Cooper

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

— Adolf von Harnack

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

“Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?”

— Galinda Glinda

“It is only through examining history that you become aware of where you stand within the continuum of change.”

— John Lewis

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall…

— Robert Penn Warren