I Think That We Need History As

To Shut Yourself From History Is To Shut Yourself Off From Say Music Or Painting Or The Theatre, Literature For The Rest Of Your Life. It Would Be To Cheat Yourself Of The Pleasures Of Life.

You Can't Love What You Don't Know Much About. You Can't Convince, Stimulate, Hold The Attention, Teach, If You Don't Know What You're Talking About.

If The Attitude Of The Teacher Toward The Material Is Positive, Enthusiastic, Committed And Excited, The Students Get That. If The Teacher Is Bored, Students Get That And They Get Bored, Quickly, Instinctively.

I Feel Very Strongly That History Is About Everything. It Isn't Just About Politics Or The Military Or Social Issues. If Art, Music, Engineering, Science, Medicine, Finance, The World Of Architecture And Technology - If Those Are Left Out, Then You're Not Getting A Full Sense Of The Human Condition. History Is Human And We Human Beings Are Involved In All Kinds Of Things And That's Part Of Our Humanity.

I Feel That History Is In Many Ways The Most Important Of All Subjects Because It Is About Everything And Because It's About Who We Are And How We Came To Be The Way We Are.