Quotes About Curriculum

Es war ein geisteswissenschaftliches Studienprogramm. Mit Schusswaffen.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Girls and women are more likely to continue with their education if they feel the curriculum has some relevance to their own lives and is taught in a culturally sensitive way.

Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.

Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.

Education is all about making sure that the next generation know what our representatives think they should know.

History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

There isn't really any Common Core any more. Each state is able to set the standards for their state. They may elect to adopt very high standards for their students to aspire to and to work toward. And that will be up to each state.

The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason - these are very important.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

Dear Bea— I've been wading through a pile of Due before 3 mimeos—but now at last I know what to do with them: into the wastebasket! I'm also hep to the jargon. I know that illustrative material means magazine covers, enriched curriculum means teaching who and whom, and that All evaluation of students should be predicated upon initial goals and grade level expectations means if a kid shows up, pass him. Right?

Feminist movement created a revolution when it demanded respect for women's academic work, recognition of that work past and present, and an end to gender biases in curriculum and pedagogy.