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My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
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Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
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