Children Quote by Michael Gove

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we…

— William Irwin Thompson

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

With the rise of new technologies, media, and other cultural apparatuses as powerful forms of public pedagogy, students need to understand and address how…

— Henry Giroux

“Pedagogy is always about power, because it cannot be separated from how subjectives are formed, desires mobilized, how some experiences are legitimized and others…

— Henry A. Giroux

“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of…

— Adolf Hitler

I love history but was taught badly at school.

— Cathy Newman

The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world,…

— Peter Lee

The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to…

— Jean Fritz

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

— Max Boot

“A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely,…

— Dylan Wiliam

“A common misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, prowling libraries and disdaining the…

— Steve Brody

Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a…

— David McCullough