Kevin Costner has respectful policy change request for Trump

Hollywood actor Kevin Costner believes that American education ought to be focused more on history rather than math.

Costner expressed this unique take during an interview this week with the Associated Press.

“I wish we would have a giant shift in education where history dominated more than math,” he said. “Because the people that are really good at math, they’re going to search out math anyway, cause that’s who they are, they’re just built that way.”

“But everybody can understand where they come from,” he added.

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Kevin Costner wants schools to prioritize history. He narrates and produced the new docuseries “Kevin Costner’s The West.” pic.twitter.com/M2uPewtKWU

— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) May 27, 2025

His remarks come amid the release of his new historical docuseries, “The West,” that retells tragic stories from America’s past.

“Everything I found [when studying American history], almost everything I found was tragic,” he recently told Fox News in an interview. “Isn’t that weird?”

“Every story — there weren’t a lot of happy endings, although there were people that made it on the backs of these kinds of people we’re … zeroing in on,” he added.

He went on to bring up the example of John Colter, a “mountain man.”

“Colter was especially interesting to me as a man who was perfectly fit being out there,” Costner said. “The guys that came along, artists came, scientists came. It was an expedition, but Colter would hunt for the meat, would use sign language.”

“John Colter was a mountain man. He had no business wanting to go back to Washington, and I felt that we’re gonna give him one, not let him go back. Then he became so responsible for some of the greatest, wildest stories ever,” Costner explained.

The west is a place where anything is possible. In our new series, Kevin Costner’s The West, we’ll take you on an epic journey through the birth of the American West, examining the relentless competition for land, power, and identity that forged our nation’s history. #TheWest… pic.twitter.com/p8c2IaUX0n

— Lily Mccall Costner (@lily_m_costner) April 16, 2025

Costner added that, while he was filming the show, he himself learned a great deal about American history.

“I know I learned things,” he said. “I was thinking about these missionaries who went back and had to talk people into funding them to let them go, and then they tried to bring their religion to these poor people.”

“As we moved across the country, we told them all different stories, and we talked about that too, like, we don’t want your land, we just want to move through it. Now we want your land, and we want you to cut your hair. We want to change your religion. And we confuse people. And when we couldn’t convince them, we murdered them, and we made up convenient stories to do it. These places don’t have their names anymore. We named them after ourselves,” he continued.

Costner also compared the Wild West to sports.

“I’ve always felt that I like sports, OK? I’m a sports guy,” he said. “You and I know the score, right? There’s nobody can bulls— us about who won. There’s something honest about the sports page. It’s not dishonest. We find out who won, right? The rest of our news is a little bit nebulous, but sports never is.”

“And when we think about the West, if we think about it really honestly, we say it was a dangerous place. All the time, you had to be really resourceful. I know guys that kind of really want to see the truth. Let me see how raw it was. Let me know how real it was. Am I that tough?” he added.

Thank you guys for the birthday wishes. If you can believe it, this is me. I was chasing the cowboy life just about as soon as I could walk, and here I am doing it still.

Here’s to another year of keeping our sights set on our dreams. pic.twitter.com/dMX0j0OcAv

— Kevin Costner & MW (@modernwest) January 18, 2025

In separate remarks made to Fox News in January, Costner stressed that making movies should have “nothing to do with politics.”

“Movies don’t have to be important, but they have to have an audience in mind,” he said. “I think it doesn’t matter about party in [the] office. It’s about the people sitting in the dark. It’s got nothing to do with politics.”

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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