James W. Loewen Quotes About Students
-
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.
→ -
The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.
→ -
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
→ -
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.
→
Related Authors
-
Arundhati Roy Author -
Matt Damon Actor -
Eric Foner Historian -
Howard Zinn Historian -
Amy Goodman Journalist -
James Buchanan 15th U.S. President -
Tom Shadyac Comedian -
Helen Keller Author -
Noam Chomsky Linguist -
Ronald Takaki Historian -
Jonathan Kozol Writer -
Mitch Daniels Former Governor of Indiana -
Bartolome de las Casas Historian -
Donna Tartt Writer -
Studs Terkel Author -
Edward Said Professor -
Christopher Columbus Explorer -
Chris Hedges Author -
Naomi Klein Author -
John Brown Abolitionist
Popular Topics
- Long Walk To Freedom
- Deadly Sins
- Fiction Stories
- Get It Together
- Interpersonal Skills
- Periods
- Not Responding
- Raistlin Majere
- Blades
- Steadiness
- Prisoner Of War
- Stupidity And Ignorance
- Concluding
- Habeas Corpus
- Wonderful Children
- Snowball Effect
- Sonnet
- Leadership Qualities
- Quality Goods
- Dinner And A Movie