College Quote by Robert Scheer

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

— Max Boot

Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the…

— James W. Loewen

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

Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.

— Max Boot

I love history but was taught badly at school.

— Cathy Newman

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

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

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

— Frank Herbert

Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a better grasp…

— Tony Robinson

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

— Colson Whitehead

I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

— Chris Matthews