School History Quotes

• No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, School, Dust

  1941 In This Our Life, pt.3, ch.9.

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• Es una pena que la historia de las mujeres gire en torno a los hombres: primero los chicos, luego otros chicos, luego los hombres. Me recuerda a la forma en que nuestros libros de texto escolares de historia trataban sobre guerras y elecciones, una guerra tras otra, con los aburridos periodos de paz omitidos cada vez que se producían. (Nuestros profesores lo deploraban y añadían unidades adicionales sobre historia social y movimientos de protesta, pero ése seguía siendo el mensaje de los libros).

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Profesor, Guerra, Libro

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• I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

  Ringo Starr

  Running, Nice, Book

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• While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.

  Jonathan Ott

  Stress, School, Army

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• After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of Edwards' 18 WAC champions and 21 bowl teams. That was the group of kids that totally changed the direction of my life and the direction of our football program. We started 0-3-1 and won seven or eight in a row. They were the first bowl team in school history. I hadn't really accomplished anything yet. To see all those guys reminded me where we've been. It was an emotional night.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Team, School

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• Aquellos de nosotros que entramos en buenas universidades o profesiones, ¿nos enfrentamos a ese profesor de historia del instituto que nos contó alguna mentira ridícula sobre la historia de Estados Unidos y le dijimos: "Eso es una mentira ridícula. ¿Eres idiota? No. Dijimos: "Muy bien, me callaré y lo escribiré en el examen y pensaré que sí, que es un idiota". Y es fácil decir y creer cosas que mejoran la imagen que uno tiene de sí mismo y de su carrera y que, de otras maneras, son beneficiosas para uno mismo.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Lying, Believe

  Fuente: progressive.org

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