James W. Loewen Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• 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.

  James W. Loewen

  Teacher, Thinking, Adoption

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

• 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.

  James W. Loewen

  Teacher, School, College

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

• Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

  James W. Loewen

  Teacher, Lying, Interesting

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.392, The New Press

• Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

  James W. Loewen

  Teacher, Needs, Textbooks

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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