Curriculum Quotes - Page 7

• So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time.

  George W. Bush

  College, Community, Needs

  President's Remarks at Ask President Bush Event, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. August 10, 2004.

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• MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.

  Sam Wineburg

  Integrity, Teaching, Writing

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• So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.

  Robert Muller

  World, Evolution, Educator

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• Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Philosophy, Teaching

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• There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophical, Passion, Issues

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• Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

  Daniel Goleman

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

  Toby Young

  School, Reason Why, Grammar

  "Can Toby Young's free school succeed?". Interview with Peter Wilby, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.

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• [Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

  Paul Lockhart

  Teacher, Math, Nomenclature

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• The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

  E. V. Lucas

  Education, Latin, Greek

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• In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Cutting, Frustration

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• How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?

  Jon Stewart

  School, Technology, Space

  "Jon Stewart Schools Congress On Climate Change With A Simple Demonstration" By Ed Mazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Philosophy, Latin

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• Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

  Henry Giroux

  Cheating, Learning, School

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• Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Religious, Philosophy, Political

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2007). “Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Teacher, School, Atlanta

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• Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Osmosis, Design

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• The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and science in an education and just as important as any other endeavour in our lives.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Educational, Math

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• I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a science teacher, who has instilled in me a respect for science. I think it should be taught in our schools. I won't ever deny that I see the hand of God in this beautiful creation that is earth. But - that is not a part of state policy or a local curriculum in a school district. Science should be taught in science class.

  Sarah Palin

  Beautiful, Daughter, Teacher

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• There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

  John Merrow

  Art, School, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Rod Paige

  Running, School, Design

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• My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach people about women's bodies so they understand what Planned Parenthood is for.

  Jen Kirkman

  Years, People, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, School, Parent

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

  Alexis Ohanian

  America, People, World

  Source: www.fool.com

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• Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard to tell the difference between charters and public anymore. There's no fine line.

  David Brooks

  School, Differences, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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