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

As history be told truthfully, edification becomes much less exhausting.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.