“Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.” MenFirstsParentHeroRespect YourselfDemigods Author:Pythagoras
“What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.” MenJoyPreparation Author:Lucien Febvre
“History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.” WellsImportantStatesPastUnderstandingRaceIssuesImpossibleTaughtHistoricalSouthNuclearBackgroundsWelfareOur TimeIrelandSouth AfricaDisarmamentWelfare StateImportant IssuesNorthern IrelandNuclear Disarmament Author:Alan Bullock
“History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.” ImportantAwfulTopicsWondrous Author:James W. Loewen
“If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.” IfsCountryPoliticalNationsSocialDemocracyEventsCreationDependsInstitutionsVotersCohesionPolitical Institutions Author:Alan Bullock
“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.” MindHelpingBeliefUnderstandingLinesSimpleViewsBalanceIntellectualSolutionsFaultsPoint Of ViewAbsenceConcentrationRemedyImaginativeOne LineSimple Solutions Author:Geoffrey Elton
“We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.” PeopleSelfDestructionRateSeparationAdvertisingThanksPropagandaIsolationApathyHelplessnessInfancySelf DestructionPassivity Author:Noam Chomsky
“The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world, and how they see it.... To say someone has learnt history is to say something very wide ranging about the way in which he or she is likely to make sense of the world. History offers a way of seeing almost any substantive issue in human affairs, subject to certain procedures and standards, whatever feelings one may have.” WorldWayHumansMayReasonFeelingsCertainIssuesSeeingTeachingSubjectsOffersStandardsAffairWideMake SenseWorld HistoryProceduresPupilsTeaching History Author:Peter Lee