Tyler McCubbin’s Reviews > Future-Focused History Teaching: Restoring the Power of Historical Learning > Status Update

“The big pictures currently supplied to students in history classrooms don’t provide students with a coherent understanding of human experience because they include more factual information than human brains can absorb and integrate into a meaningful understanding of the whole.” (79)

“The trivial nature of history education rests squarely on the shoulders of history educators, who can’t even agree on what history education is for.” (35)