Quotes About Curriculum

Evergreen is arguably the most radical college in the country - and while it does lean far to the left in a political sense, it is the school's pedagogical structure to which I refer. Rather than placing students in many separate classes, most of our curriculum is integrated into full-time programs that may run the entire academic year.

I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

Q: What is the fruitiest subject at school? A: History, because it's full of dates.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

The unfortunate, truly exciting thing about your life is that there is no core curriculum. . . . So don't worry about your grade or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEETING AT 3 PM IN SCIENCE LAB 409 ON: THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE OF THE PUPIL: SHOULD MACBETH BE TAUGHT IN THE 6th TERM INSTEAD OF THE 5th?

It never seemed to occur to Heather that Francisca might be a refugee from the dim and distant past—not even when she fainted at her first sight of an airliner. I'd have sussed it on the first day—which just goes to show why more science fiction should be included in the National Curriculum.

My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

If there is value in the standardized, performance-based curriculums utilized by the vast majority of schools, that value is realized primarily by the institutions themselves and by the economic and social structures that are fed by standardized learning.

I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra

University of California at San Diego Professor Linda Brodkey argues that to teach both sides of the story is unnecessary—

UCSD provost David Jordan is more blunt: "Why should I teach a point of view I don't agree with?

The Democrats running the universities don't separate politics and teaching.

Accountability measures allow administrators to require the faculty to "teach to the test," rather than devise the curriculum according to its own judgment. In this way, college professors can be reduced to the same subordinate status to which elementary and secondary school teachers have already been relegated.

To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.