Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.