Historical Learning Quotes

I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.

Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people.

Critical race theory is a profoundly unserious proposition that rests on a willing suspension of disbelief about history, economics and society. No honest person with an ounce of historical learning believes the U.S. was founded to preserve the institution of slavery. Yet for years we have found ourselves locked in a pseudoacademic debate with grifting extremists who’ve made this flapdoodle part of the curriculum in some places.

The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

I was born in the 1980s, so learning about the late 1960s was really fascinating, not only just because of the way things looked and sounded but because of what was going on in society at that time.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.