Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. — G. M. Trevelyan. British historian and academic (1876–1962)
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.