Backgrounds Quote by James Henry Breasted

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of…

— Graham Hancock

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Max Boot

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

— Maya Angelou

“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”

— Daniel Nayeri

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

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

— Tom Mison

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

History is a condensation of all of our greatest triumphs and all of our worst mistakes. Perhaps,by studying,it we can better ourselves as a…

— Albert Ong