People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus or for that matter the 20th century. You are a consumer of that information, especially if it’s stuff like Columbus and the American Indians. That information isn’t even in history, much of it. Much of it is in anthropology or archeology.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.