Sam Wineburg Quotes

#1. The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Sam Wineburg

#2. Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.

Sam Wineburg

#3. We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

Sam Wineburg

#4. Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the invaluable mental power we call judgment.

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#5. As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.

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#6. MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.

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#7. (The historian) was able to disapprove without being astonished. She could reject and still understand.

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#8. The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

Sam Wineburg