Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is more or less bunk.
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
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 so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.