Quotes About Curriculum

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution. —THOMAS JEFFERSON

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

By forcing schools and teachers to teach to the test, it has narrowed the educational experiences of millions of children and thus deprived our children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, of a real education.

One of the books scheduled for adoption, she pointed out, informed children that the United States had settled its conflict in Korea by "using the bomb." This apparent reference to nonexistent nuclear warfare was just one of 231 factual errors cited by conservative critics whose

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

It was not the first time I had encountered on university campuses ignorance of Hayek and other conservative intellectuals, nor was it accidental. Such ignorance is a direct consequence of the tenured left's dominance of liberal arts institutions and its politicization of the curriculum and the faculty hiring process since the 1960s.

Useful learning needs to begin where the student is at that time and then builds on what that person knows. The biggest challenge to an educator is what to forgo from the 'old' curriculum in favour of something more relevant. Then

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

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

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.