American history Quote by Mitch Daniels

“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

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

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops…

— Simon Schama

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

— James W. Loewen

“Because our current educational system now graduates students lacking even minimal historical knowledge, citizens are misled by outlandish charges Modernists make about not only…

— David Barton

Our children and grandchildren should be taught an accurate history, even if it is a painful one.

— Michelle Steel

We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem…

— David McCullough

“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

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

— Whoopi Goldberg

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

— Brent Scowcroft

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

— Adolf Hitler

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

— Raghuram Rajan