Quotes About Curriculum

Teachers may think of caring as unconditional praise, or as quickly incorporating cultural components into the curriculum, or even as lowering standards. On the contrary, others have argued, an "ethic of care" means a combination of respect, admiration, and rigorous standards.

Das Studium ist nicht einmal Nebensache, es ist Formalität:

Education, once free, is now accessible only to those who can afford the costly tuition rates. The curricula have been "depoliticized," meaning that a left perspective critical of imperialism and capitalism has been replaced by a conservative one that is supportive or at least uncritical of these forces.

State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting

I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.

An endless imposition of mandates, scripted curriculum, and lockstep pacing guides communicates little belief in teacher competence, and an overprescribed curriculum limits teachers' capacity for growth.

You want undergraduates who can write, think, and read? Stop pretending that writing can be taught across the curriculum by geologists and physicists who wouldn't recognize a dependent clause if it bit them on the ass.

When you grow up in America today, most schools don't teach you about money and investing. You could literally take a class in woodshop or auto in high school and not take a class on money.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

Quién se preocupa realmente por lo que les enseñan a nuestros hijos en la escuela?

engaging' pupils rather than instructing them. Meaningless phrases such as 'linking cross curricular activities' and 'teaching children rather than subjects' are bandied around to wise nods of approval, but the one question that is never asked is: 'Does any of this weird stuff really work?

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Coverage of material is a snare and a delusion. You begin where students are prepared to begin; and you carry them as far as you can without losing them.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it - but most schools follow it. This matrix determined what children have to study and when.

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

In On the Origin of Species, Darwin openly acknowledged important weaknesses in his theory and professed his own doubts about key aspects of it. Yet today's public defenders of a Darwin-only science curriculum apparently do not want these, or any other scientific doubts about contemporary Darwinian theory, reported to students.

teachers lead by working directly with students and others who influence student learning inside and beyond the classroom. Teachers act on behalf of students by planning instruction, creating curriculum, collaborating with colleagues, taking initiative, taking the lead, and co-constructing practice on numerous levels.

Not all 'schooling' is 'education,' and not all 'education' is 'schooling'.

Si la calidad de la educación que uno tiene a su alcance es inadecuada, si a uno le enseñan a memorizar al pie de la letra y no a pensar, si el contenido de lo que se nos da para leer viene de una cultura casi ajena, la alfabetización puede ser un camino lleno de obstáculos.