What did James W. Loewen mean by: The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don’t read. - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA Copy
+ The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James W. Loewen, Feel Good, Honest, 0 - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ I’m looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it’s coming. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James W. Loewen, Good Things, Looking Forward, 0 - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James W. Loewen, Teacher, Textbooks, 0 - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James W. Loewen, Important, Textbooks, 0 - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James W. Loewen, Cherish, Columbus, 0 - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ The world, of course, doesn’t come divided into disciplines. The world just is. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James W. Loewen, Discipline, Divided, 0 - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James W. Loewen, History, Past, 0 - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
+ History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, James W. Loewen, Weapons, 0 - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. - Herman Melville Author · USA
Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important. - James W. Loewen Sociologist · USA
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. - Joan Robinson Economist · United Kingdom
What do you do with a textbook case when no one’s written the textbook? - Neal Shusterman Author · USA
