History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. AudenPolitical history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
W. H. AudenA person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.
W. H. Auden