Quotes About Curriculum

Schools everywhere are organized on the assumption that there is only one right way to learn and that it is the same way for everybody.

Yet, pressures of testing and overstuffed curricula easily make us abandon meaningfulness and reduce our view of our work to mere individual cognitive skill building. It is easy to forget the need to engage the whole person in joint community activities that are socially and personally meaningful and emotionally satisfying.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big guns of this war are directed from the centers of intellect on the high ground of the university culture, where tenured radicals have created an anti-American ideology and forced it on the nation's youth through the curriculum.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

We do not organize education the way we see the world. If we did, we would have departments of Sky, Landscapes, Water, Wind, Sounds, Time Seashores, Swamps, and Rivers.

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization.

Academics are very important.

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?

When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.

when they're released. You were hired to teach English. According to the curriculum. There will be no graveyard program. Mark my words. That graveyard is run by a board, and they will in no way allow this. I will make certain of that.

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.

not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them?

Unlike other countries, the United States is more an idea than a place, ethnicity, or race. Unfortunately, most American young people today cannot answer, What is America for? What is it about? Why was it founded? Why is it different? They can't answer these questions because they haven't been taught an answer.

We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.

But no histories of Man's goodness have ever been compiled, and no educational curricula that focus on this goodness have

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

From now on we will focus on the four Rs: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rules.

He talks some more about classes he likes--not many--and those he doesn't like, and it is clear that, whatever sophisticated planning has gone into curriculum design at Alan's school, the distinction between a good class and a bad class, from his point of view, has a lot to do with the freedom it offers to stand up and walk around.

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.