Education Quote by Min Jin Lee

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet…

— Thomas Sowell

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

— Henry Hampton

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

— Maynard James Keenan

History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

— Bruce Jackson

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

— Max Boot

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than…

— Louis L'Amour

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records,…

— George F. Kennan

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

— Henry David Thoreau