Sam Wineburg Quotes

#1. 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.

Sam Wineburg

#2. Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

A.J.P. Taylor

#3. The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Sam Wineburg

#5. In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Noam Chomsky

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

Sam Wineburg

#7. The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

Julian Of Norwich

#8. It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

Bill Maher

#9. 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.

Sam Wineburg

#10. Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

Buddy Guy

#11. But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.

J. Limbu

#12. There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

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

Sam Wineburg

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

Sam Wineburg

#15. The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it.
A fool's mind judges a book by its title.

Ellen J. Barrier

#16. There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

Jess Row

#17. 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

#18. The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Sam Wineburg