Curriculum Quotes - Page 2

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Friendship, Moving, College

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• Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Education

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Strategy

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books

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• Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, Inspiration, Ideas

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Favorites Things

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• The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

  Jon Stewart

  Graduation, Life Is, Exciting

  Jon Stewart's Commencement Address at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, www.wm.edu. May 20, 2004.

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• The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Discipline, Faculty

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Rick Perry

  School, College, Texas

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• It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

  James S. Coleman

  Children, School, Opportunity

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• 'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Simple, Creation Science

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• Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring

  Seymour Papert

  School, Kids, Games

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• You will be Presented with Lessons: You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.’ Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Hate, School, Opportunity

  Cherie Carter Scott (2004). “If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories: Trur Stories by Real People Around the World About Being Human”, p.35, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

  Arne Duncan

  Law, Levels, Want

  "Arne Duncan: Testocracy Tsar. Educational Alchemist. Corporate Lackey". Interview with Jesse Hagopian, progressive.org. January 1, 2016.

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

  Edwin Moses

  Mother, Father, School

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

  Rita Dove

  Teacher, Children, Trying

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.

  Richard Dawkins

  Education, Business, Believe

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• 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.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Education, Reality, World

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.169, Anchor

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• Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

  Charles Handy

  Teacher, Home, School

  Charles B. Handy (2003). “The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist”, p.26, Harvard Business Press

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• The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Balls

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• The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

  Menander

  School, Experience, Hard

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• Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

  Eric Clapton

  Sports, Kids, Loner

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• Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

  John Hume

  Age, Fiction, Awful

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Art, Children, School

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• We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

  Philip Greenspun

  Jobs, School, Want

  "Philip Greenspun Answers". Slashdot Interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.

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