History Quote by James W. Loewen Download Open image ““history textbooks need to disabuse students of the flat-earth myth.”” — James W. Loewen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disabuse Students Flat Earth History History textbooks Textbooks Textbooks Need
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
“however the trouble with “lessons from history” is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.” — J.G. McKenney Copy Share Image
“A myth can be picked up by a whole society, believed and taught to the next generation. Gods, fairies, witches—believing a thing doesn’t make… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but… — Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
“History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not to those… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
![“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as aliens, and were rarely allowed to live within white society except on its periphery," according to [Gary] Nash. Native Americans who amassed…” quote by James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/31e/james-w-loewen-12569_acculturated_no-matter-how-thoroughly-native-american_489063.jpg)
