歴史は,この国とかあの国とか,特定の国の歴史としてではなく,文化の進歩の歴史として教えられるペきです。人類全体の見地に立って教えられるべきであり,自国だけを不当に強調して教えてはなりません。いかなる国も例外なく悪いことをやってきたし,その大部分は馬鹿げた過ちであったことを,子供たちに教えなければなりません。
History should be taught as the history of the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not undue emphasis upon one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness.
出典：What is Democracy, 1953, the teaching of history