“ The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity. ”
One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.
~ H.w. Brands
It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.[
He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.
He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.
