History Education Quotes

History displays the events of time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. — Gunnar Myrdal

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn

History define humanity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different. — C.S. Lewis

The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down. — Theresa Sjoquist

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. — Adolf Hitler

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them. — Diane Ravitch

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life consists of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive. — Theresa Sjoquist

I began with the desire to speak with the dead. — Stephen Greenblatt

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education. — Ian Harding

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. — David O. McKay

History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability. — Debasish Mridha

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history. — Nicola Sturgeon

It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer. — Theresa Sjoquist

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing. — Sting

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them. — Sam Wineburg

Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history. — Eric Foner

The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How would you document the history of today? — Lailah Gifty Akita

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen. — John Holt

Even a selected display of one's early work will be a naked history of one's struggle to receive an education in economics and love. — John Cheever

Ancient literature is a rich history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We travel to ancient times by reading history books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know. — Harry Truman

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about! — Barbara Ann Mojica

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. — Anson Mount

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything. — Pippa Evans

I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72. — Theresa Sjoquist

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

History must be documented; every moment is a sacred history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things. — Henry Ford

Human nature in time is engraved in history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Excellence is not a history, but a habit. — Debasish Mridha

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental ... — D. A. Fisher

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. — Dirk Jan Struik

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run. — Frank Herbert

Historical gap is created due to missing written records. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. — Sam Cooke

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate. — Megan Smolenyak

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not. — Patricia Briggs

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory. — Henny Youngman

Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up. — Theresa Sjoquist

History is the hallmark of humanity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out. — Habeeb Akande

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. — Eugene Jarecki

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the invaluable mental power we call judgment. — Sam Wineburg

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H.G.Wells

Know the history of the great ancestors. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. — Sharon Salzberg

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. — Henry Ward Beecher

The necessity of the universal and the particular is a central aspect of liberal education, and is likewise joined in the great narratives of history. — Ellis Washington