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Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias. -- Raymond S. Moore
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. -- Ellen Glasgow
It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened. -- Elizabeth Kostova
In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history. -- Catherine Jinks
The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame. -- Rush Limbaugh
I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England. -- Damon Albarn
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. -- Rosa Luxemburg
Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move. -- Frank Rich
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education. -- Ian Harding
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. -- Stephen Ambrose
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. -- Brenton Thwaites
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable. -- Jonathan Kozol
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. -- Dave Foley
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current. -- Benjamin Walker
In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that. -- Carlos Slim
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. -- Chris Rock
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer. -- Daniel Goldstein
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school. -- James Nesbitt
I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them. -- Scott Snyder
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun. -- Robert Darnton
I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work. -- John Henrik Clarke
I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another. -- Joan Sutherland
I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes. -- Cary Elwes
History is the school of statesmanship. -- John Robert Seeley
She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history. -- Rodney Dangerfield
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. -- C. V. Wedgwood
I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. -- Tom Mison
To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. -- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater. -- Elizabeth Olsen
I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema. -- Cary Fukunaga
I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. -- Bruce Pavitt
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. -- Judy Woodruff
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government. -- Olivia De Havilland
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. -- Horace Mann
I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on. -- Eric Bana
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine. -- Amish Tripathi
What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by. -- John Irving
I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor. -- Carlton Cuse
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school. -- Vera Wang
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do. -- Alexis Herman
I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it. -- Ruby Bentall
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man. -- Xavier Samuel
I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me. -- Akeem Ayers
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course. -- David Christian

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