History Quote by James W. Loewen

“The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.”

— Sam Wineburg

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

— James W. Loewen

“Don’t learn literature from a history teacher.”

— Vijay Kedia

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur…

— Louis L'Amour

“There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.”

— Charles T. Munger

“Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history”

— Owl City

“For roughly thirty years, young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of…

— Niall Ferguson

“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

“What began as downsizing went on to wholesale abandonment. Schools closed, libraries and academies shut their doors, professional grammarians and teachers of rhetoric found…

— Stephen Greenblatt