American culture Quote by James W. Loewen

I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans in elementary…

— Soledad O'Brien

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who…

— Anonymous

My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that…

— Chester Nez

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all…

— Chaske Spencer

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

— Henry Louis Gates

If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching…

— David Christian

If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how…

— Robert Hass

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this…

— Cesar Chavez

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

— Kevin Costner

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school…

— Femi Kuti

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots…

— David Christian

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

— Aldo Leopold