Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

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

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

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

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.