What did James W. Loewen mean by: I’m looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it’s coming. James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA Copy
Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James W. Loewen, Consequences, Education, History, 0 James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ Conclusions are not always pleasant. Author, September 30, 2023January 2, 2025, James W. Loewen, Disappointment, Realization, Uncertainty, 0 James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James W. Loewen, Inclusivity, Perspective, Truth, 0 James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James W. Loewen, Bias, Colonization, 0 James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James W. Loewen, Authority, Importance, Truth, 0 James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James W. Loewen, Deception, Exploitation, Manipulation, 0 James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you. Author, June 29, 2023January 2, 2025, James W. Loewen, Knowledge, Manipulation, Power, 0 James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don’t read. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James W. Loewen, Assumption, 0 James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
