“Our history teacher had the most boring voice in the world and no teaching skils to speak of. Every single class, he read aloud in a monotonous tone. Yeah, fascinating. Double history on a Monday morning was a punishment from God.”
“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."(History Will Teach Us Nothing)”
“He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.”
“The single most violent person in the history of the world is the president of the United States.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
“In my ten years of teaching I’ve noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit.”