Curriculum Quotes - Page 6

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

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Character, Choices, Temptation

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2002). “Winning the Inner War”, p.14, David C Cook

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• I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

  Rachel Nichols

  Appreciation, Crazy, Book

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• To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Media, Journalism

  "Are Conservatives Hopelessly Outnumbered?". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 19, 2013.

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• As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Country, School, Views

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

  Lewis Pugh

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

  Igor Babailov

  Artist, Class, Skills

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• I often suggest that my students ask themselves the simple question: Do I know how to live? Do I know how to eat? How much to sleep? How to take care of my body? How to relate to other people? ... Life is the real teacher, and the curriculum is all set up. The question is: are there any students?

  Larry Rosenberg

  Teacher, Real, Sleep

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• To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

  Alfie Kohn

  Students, Force, Accommodate

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

  Aristotle

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

  Aristotle (1987). “A New Aristotle reader”

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• The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Self Esteem, Pride, Achievement

  "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

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• A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth however learned. But while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the Christian from that which they seem to the non-Christian; and that is why a truly Christian education is possible only when Christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.

  John Gresham Machen

  Girl, Christian, Teacher

  John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

  Dean Kamen

  Kids, Technology, Minorities

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• I've received more and more emails from teachers saying that they are beginning to teach presence in their classroom without necessarily calling it that or calling it anything, not as part of the official curriculum. It's like an underground movement not yet officially recognized by the educational authorities - at least not as far as I know!

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teacher, Educational, Email

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". Awaken interview, www.awaken.com. January 7, 2014.

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• One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.

  Michael Gove

  Past, Thinking, Talking

  "Michael Gove admits schools should teach computer science". Michael Gove's speech to a group of young reporters at the national conference at New Schools Network in London, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2011.

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• There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Religious, Growing Up

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.

  Pico Iyer

  Opportunity, Class, Age

  Source: layoga.com

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• Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

  Thomas Oden

  Difficult Questions, Long, Political

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• Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.

  Gordon Ramsay

  School, Thinking, Skills

  Source: variety.com

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• Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save you so that you could cruise into paradise on a luxury liner; He saved
  you to prepare you to be of use in His kingdom. The moment you were born again, He enrolled you in His school of suffering. And every affliction, every trial, is another lesson in the curriculum.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, School, Exercise

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• Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth

  Marianne Williamson

  Soul, Growth, Situation

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 01, 2013

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• Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.

  David Lynch

  School, Creative, Preparation

  "David Lynch Meditates on Peace". Interview with Scoop A. Wasserstein, www.thecrimson.com. September 30, 2005.

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• I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Country, Jobs

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• A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

  Dan Gelber

  Strong, School, Florida

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• The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Agendas, Crafts

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