Quotes About Curriculum

Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bullshit they teach you in school.

Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons.

If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts.

Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

Create a New Culture. Hold on to the new ways of behaving, and make sure they succeed, until they become strong enough to replace old traditions. Better still, make all of these steps a central part of the way you live to help you adapt to an ever faster changing world. Consider: Are we putting those who have helped make change happen in leadership roles? Have the scouts been rewarded? How can we institutionalize change, like adding scouting to the school curriculum?

So we started introducing BS majors, in an effort to make the university ready for them, rather than making them ready for the university.

By provoking separate studies of monumental male nudes in self-consciously handsome postures, he established the curriculum for generations of imitators.

As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.

education and schooling are, as we all have experienced, mutually exclusive terms.

Senin diplomanda bir "tarih öÄŸretmeni" olduÄŸun yaz?yor, oysa öÄŸrettiÄŸin ÅŸey propagandadan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.

A escola é uma sentença de prisão de doze anos em que maus hábitos são o único currículo verdadeiramente aprendido.

Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

Pick up a fifth-grade math or rhetoric textbook from 1850 and you'll see that the texts were pitched then on what would today be considered college level. The continuing cry for "basic skills" practice is a smoke screen

In our attempt to make education "fun," we have neglected the academic disciplines that develop sound minds and are conducive to sound characters.

We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.