Missing History Quotes

“only way to stimulate the spirit of inquiry is, first to make the person realize that he does not know, and, second, that it is truly possible to know.”
― Kathryn Kramer, Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books

“What does he want you to do? What does she? And how can this be accomplished with the least effort possible so that time will be left for the real, important things? Here we are, figuring out how to survive in a hive of hierarchies, and they want us to memorize dates and decline agricola.”
― Kathryn Kramer, Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books

“Because school has always been a matter of getting it right, of scoping out what “rightness” means to the teacher and then providing this.”
― Kathryn Kramer, Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books

“this fundamental effort to get your bearings, this paradox pressed upon teenagers of distinguishing yourself from everyone in the world while taking care not to be different from anyone—”
― Kathryn Kramer, Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books