Attention Quote by Thomas Sowell

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

— Max Boot

The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the…

— Gary DeMar

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

The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the…

— Dennis Prager

Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation needs to…

— David Christian

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

— Vincent Massey

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten,…

— Matt Smith

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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