“ The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. If textbook authors feel compelled to give good moral instruction, the way origin myths have always done, th… James W. Loewen
“ It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty… Timothy B. Tyson
“ There is not one Indian in the whole of this country who does not cringe in anguish and frustration because of these textbooks. There is not one Indian child who has not come home in shame and tears. Rupert Costo
“ While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students… Donovan L. Graham
“ While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life? Ander Monson
“ It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein’s contribution to the field was reformulative and… Jeffrey Eugenides
“ The knowledge we gain from textbooks can never measure to the wisdom we gain through experience. Anika de Souza
“ These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and… Mike Schmoker
“ To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist. Jacob Bronowski
