Quotes About Curriculum

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic sensibility - no A.P. art history or African-American studies or language courses in Mandarin or Portuguese. I lived for English, for reading.

Mapping does not purport to create an idealistic vision where all teachers agree, love one another, and gather around a campfire and sing 'Curriculum Kumbaya.' What it can develop is a sense of place, of respect, and of new grounds for discussion, disputes, and direction.

consistent caretakers and allowed to interact with one another, that their survival rates improved (Blum, 2002). What better evidence is there that the brain is a social organ requiring positive human connection as much as food and water? Educational experts are guilty of a similar myopathy when they focus on curricular content and test performance rather than the social world of students and teachers.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.