by Abe Sullivan

Created on: January 24, 2007   Last Updated: May 08, 2007

Howard Zinn said it best with his statement, which is also the name of his autobiography, "You can't be neutral on a moving train." It is actually benficial for a student to receive teacher bias in history instruction. As Howard Zinn once mentioned to his students, "you are going to hear my opinion in this class." He did not pretend to be neutral because this is not possible.
Often times it is the most biased material that presents itself as neutral.
Facts are is useless without a context. Examining the information and being able to reinterpret it according to your own bias is part of the learning process. The word history it self comes from the Latin "Historia" which actually means investigation. It is small wonder that some say that history can never be proven, only unproven.

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