Sentence:  Who is it that needs history the most? Our children, of course. ... Unless they can be won to history, their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of <WSD>eternal Now</WSD>: the flickering instant that's gone as soon as it has arrived. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.