Quotes About Education

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

Never stop reading. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

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.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

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.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.