Quotes About Curriculum

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

Reading through the exam and thinking, 'When the f*ck did we learn this?'

Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn, pass all your tests. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

So we spent our undergraduate years awash in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse and Middle English, living with Beowulf and Sir Gawain, ... and we were required to pay hardly any attention to the 19th-century novel, and not much to the 18th. As for the 20th century, it might have never arrived. As a friend of mine said, 'They taught us to believe in dragons.

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.

With the help of fanzines and close attention to the text of the game you can actually learn to speak Tsolyanu while wondering why the school still makes you learn French–it's not like you're going to use it.

Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? . . . As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it?

Even the most diligent parents have little effective input into what their children are taught in these classrooms. Indeed, they have no adequate or routine influence in the selection of teachers and professors, curriculum, or textbooks, which principally advance, either openly or through insinuation, a statist agenda and ideological groupthink hostile to the civil society and the American heritage.

Kissing, said Lesley, ought really to be taught as a school subject, preferably instead of religious studies, which nobody needed.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

educated in the 'liberal arts' (literally 'the intellectual pursuits suited to the free')

standardized tests are not based on general knowledge. As I learned during my investigation, they are based on specific knowledge contained in specific sets of books: the textbooks created by the test makers.

His textbooks