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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
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Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. -- Miguel Syjuco
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. -- Miguel Syjuco
By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong. -- Chris Crutcher
History is Philosophy teaching by example. -- Thucydides
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. -- Charles J. Shields
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. -- David Weinberger
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. -- Michael Gove
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. -- Carter G. Woodson
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. -- Douglas Hurd
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity. -- David Christian
I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too. -- Jandy Nelson
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class. -- Richard Dreyfuss
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. -- Malcolm X
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. -- H. P. Blavatsky
I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people. -- Leonard Orr
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others. -- Antony Beevor
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why. -- Heather Wilson
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. -- John Henrik Clarke
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. -- Adam Hamilton
History is philosophy teaching by examples. -- Lord Bolling-broke
History is philosophy teaching by experience. -- Thomas Carlyle
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. -- Frank Herbert
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. -- James A. Garfield
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. -- Henry Adams
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity. -- Arthur Tappan Pierson
I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom. -- Boris Kodjoe
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history. -- Ellen G. White
I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it. -- Malcolm X
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
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history . -- Albert Pike
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents. -- John Taylor Gatto

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