Stephen Ambrose Quotes

History courses made up of all facts and no interpretation are guaranteed to put kids to sleep…. History comes alive when viewed as a patterned story open to ongoing debate.

History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

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.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.

I did a history degree once.

Good history is a portal to the past.

I read more history books than anything else.

As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

I teach.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

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.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.