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“Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.”

Quote by James W. Loewen

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James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen is a distinguished sociologist recognized for his research on social issues and education. Born on February 6, 1942, he has made significant contributions to the understanding of race, education, and social inequality. more

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“Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.”

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“The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.”

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“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.”

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“Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.”

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“I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.”

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“Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.”

“The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.”

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“History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.”

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“All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.”

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“I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.”

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