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“It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“Critical thinking requires assembling data to back up one’s opinion. Otherwise students may falsely conclude that all opinions are somehow equal.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“If you truly want students to take an interest in American history, then stop lying to them.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, “often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat” as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong