Quotes About Curriculum

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach people about women's bodies so they understand what Planned Parenthood is for.

We need to beef up STEM education.

Government should take necessary steps to add music into school syllabus and impart knowledge to the students.

There are three things our eingeneering educators must do immediately in offering the curricula to their students: (1) Multidisciplinary courses (2) Good communication skills (3) Team work experiences.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do - how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

But why, he said with animation, do the English not read their own great literature? Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, Because at school they are made to hate it.

He prescribed Euclidean geometry, followed by a dose of trigonometry and algebra. That should cure anyone, they both thought, from having too many artistic or romantic passions.

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorise stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorize stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

For, truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen — that one must learn how to write?

Those on the other side of the debate argued forcefully that consolidated schools—with their advanced curriculums, professionally trained teachers, and classes extending through high school—were the only means of affording farm children the kind of educational opportunities available to their urban counterparts. In the end, after two years of bitter struggle, the proponents of consolidation prevailed in Bath when the township voted to fund a new school.10

One of the most frequently used and useless phrases in education is, "I have so much to cover. How am I going to finish it by the end of the year?" Notice that the word I is used twice and the word student is never used.

curriculum committee were not entirely wrong. Death is not a philosophical issue; it is a literary one. And yet, if philosophy

Old myths never die—they just become embedded in the textbooks. —THOMAS BAILEY

Textbooks in American history stand in sharp contrast to other teaching materials. Why are history textbooks so bad? Nationalism is one of the culprits. Textbooks are often muddled by the conflicting desires to promote inquiry and to indoctrinate blind patriotism.