Quotes About Curriculum

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Christ is the core of my child's curriculum.

If you truly want students to take an interest in American history, then stop lying to them.

When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves.

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.

It may be the poorest teachers who assign the most homework [because] effective teachers may cover all the material in class.

But as I mastered the material, homework ceased to be necessary. A no homework policy is a challenge to me," he adds. "I am forced to create lessons that are so good no further drilling is required when the lessons are completed.

Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts?

Schools are launching pads, launching our kids into their futures. Unfortunately, a lot of what we teach now looks identical to what we taught 40, 50, or 60 years ago. There's a need for both timeless curriculum content and timely content. What seems to be falling by the wayside is timely content.

We don't teach kids how to think anymore. We're getting rid of the classics - high school is all about self-esteem.

If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar.

I went to a school where theatre was a compulsory subject.

French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

In our education system, we're so focused on the building blocks that sometimes we try to keep the kids from looking at the larger picture.

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.