"Students will start finding history interesting when their……" — James W. Loewen
"Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them."
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James W. Loewen
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14 Quotes by James W. Loewen
James W. Loewen has 14 quotes on this site.
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Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of…
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Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
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Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
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Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and…
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People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created,…
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As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a…
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Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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The idea that we would operate and amputate healthy tissue from a baby, from an unconsenting minor, to supposedly prevent…
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Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks…
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It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to…
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In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi -…
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The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
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