“We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus or for that matter the 20th century. You are a consumer of that information, especially if it’s stuff like Columbus and the American Indians. That information isn’t even in history, much of it. Much of it is in anthropology or archeology.” IfsKnowsStillsWarMatterStuffRealizingSpecialCenturyInformationConsumersCivil WarHistorian20th CenturyAnthropologyAmerican IndianColumbusArcheology Author:James W. Loewen
“What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.” LittlesLostStuffBoxesStuckNarrativeTextbooks Author:James W. Loewen
“All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.” ThinkingReadingStuffCommonStandardsCriticalCoreCritical ThinkingBeing PositiveCommon Core Author:James W. Loewen
