Lies My Teacher Told Me

(Ron) #1

101 Mark Lloyd, interview, 1991.


102 Yankelovich, Skelly, and White, reported in “A ‘New Breed’ Emerges,”
Family Weekly, 1/1/1978.


103 In an astounding retreat from history, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., agrees: “I
will be satisfied if we can teach children to read, write, and calculate,” in
“Toward a Divisive Diversity,” Wall Street Journal, 6/ 25/1991.


104 Engle, “Late Night Thoughts About the New Social Studies,” 20.


105 Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove (New York: McGraw-
Hill, 1968), 656.


106 Paul Gagnon, “Why Study History?” Atlantic (11/1988), 51.


107 Paul Gagnon, Democracy’s Untold Story (Washington, D.C.: American
Federation of Teachers, 1987), 19.


108 Heidegger, quoted in Noam Chomsky, The Noam Chomsky Reader (New
York: Pantheon, 1987), 60.

Free download pdf