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History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.