Quotes About History

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

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

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

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.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

Already the sahibs have done more to keep the lower castes in their places than our Hindu kings did over hundreds of years.

ON THE BANKS of every great river you'll find a monument to excess." Kanai recalled the list of examples Nirmal had provided to prove this: the opera house of Manaus, the temple of Karnak, the ten thousand pagodas of Pagan. In the years since, he had visited many of those places, and it made him laugh to think his uncle had insisted that Canning too had a place on that list: "The mighty Matla's monument is Port Canning.